Cleared Atlanta Bomb Suspect Is a New Cop
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ATLANTA — More than a year after he was cleared as a suspect in the Olympic bombing, Richard Jewell is back on the police beat.
The former security guard started Tuesday as a police officer in Luthersville, a small town about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta that was once known as “speed trap city.”
“It took me a year and a half to get back to work, but finally I came and talked to the chief the other day,” Jewell told WSB-TV. “I liked what he had to say and he liked what I had to say, so he hired me.”
Last year, Jewell spent 88 days under the microscope of the FBI and the world media after he was named as a suspect in the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta that killed one woman and injured more than 100. The FBI publicly cleared him in October 1996.
Jewell held positions as a security guard, jailer and deputy sheriff before taking a job as a security guard at the Olympics.
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