A southwest Georgia sheriff has resigned after pleading guilty to returning a handgun to a felon, who ended up shooting his girlfriend. Jerry Brodgon’s Berrien County Sheriff’s department arrested felon Leonard Gray in 1997 on charges of being in a shootout. Deputies confiscated Gray’s .22-caliber handgun, but then-Sheriff Brodgon returned it when the charge of gun possession was dropped. It’s illegal for a felon to own a gun. In 2003, Gray was arrested for shooting his girlfriend with another gun, but had the .22-caliber in his pocket.
