Robert Leonard had actually signed up with the police in December. (File)
A 35-year-old US policeman was discovered dead at the end of a river on Thursday, a day after he made his very first arrest. The bodies of Robert John Leonard, a newly-appointed replacement constable in Tennessee, and the female he apprehended were recuperated from the river together with the patrol car.
On Valentine’s Day, the policeman reacted to a 911 phone call about a male and a female battling on a bridge around 10 pm. The female was after that nabbed by Leonard that was driving her back to the police headquarters.
Soon after the arrest, the policeman sent out a congratulatory message to his wife sharing the information of his first arrest yet her reaction to him was never ever provided. Leonard’s last message to his police headquarters stated “water” before both went missing out on.
A search was introduced later on that evening after efforts to speak to Leonard stopped working. Police utilized satellite monitoring to find the vehicle and on Thursday, it was taken out from all-time low of the Tennessee river. The body of Tabitha Smith, the female apprehended by Leonard, was discovered inside the vehicle.
The vehicle’s vehicle driver seat home window was rolled down and the cop’s body was discovered near it on the riverbed. It is not recognized just how the vehicle dove into the river yet cops think Leonard was texting and chatting on the radio while driving down a strange roadway.
Leonard had actually signed up with the police in December. A veteran building employee, he had actually lately relocated to Tennessee with his wife and 5 youngsters to satisfy his life-long desire for being a law enforcement officer, his obituary read.
“It’s a hard time here for us today. Something we don’t ever deal with here in Meigs County. We’re a small, rural county, we’re not used to it,” Meigs County Sheriff’s Office Chief Brian Malone informed neighborhood media.
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