Albany man charged with felony theft by taking

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ALBANY — Albany police arrested an Albany man Friday who was observed taking merchandise while working in a Fed-Ex warehouse.

The suspect, Keion Swan, 18, was witnessed stealing merchandise from the Fed Ex warehouse at 1508 Dougherty Ave.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau conducted an investigation.

Swan was interviewed and admitted that he hid the items in his clothes when they fell out of a merchandise box he was taking things out of while working.

Swan was charged with theft by taking (felony) and transported to the Dougherty County Jail.

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Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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