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‘I would like to cuddle with the man of my dreams’: Man used ID of Gainesville cop on dating app as payback for ticket
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Dwayne Leon Whitmire appears in Hall County Superior Court Friday, March 15, 2024, for a hearing on charges of impersonating a police officer, identity theft and misleading transmittal use of official name, trade name or legal seal. The Cleveland man is accused of creating a fraudulent dating account depicting a Gainesville Police officer in order to “embarrass, harass and discredit” the department, police said. - photo by Scott Rogers
A Cleveland man pleaded guilty Friday, March 15, to impersonating a Gainesville police officer and posing as a gay man on an online dating app to get back at the officer for giving him a traffic ticket.