Missing 16-year-old’s remains found in woods lead to officer’s arrest

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This better not already be here, because I searched 6 ways to Sunday and didn't find it.

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Miles Bryant, 22, an officer with the Doraville Police Department, was arrested days after the remains of Susana Morales were found in the woods near Highway 316, Gwinnett County police announced Monday, Feb. 13.

He was charged with concealing the death of another and false report of a crime in connection with the teen’s death, according to a news release.

Additional information wasn’t immediately available, and it’s unclear how or if Bryant and Morales knew each other.
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Doraville police learned of Bryant’s arrest on Feb. 13 and said the department is cooperating with the Gwinnett County Police Department’s investigation into the “now former police officer.”
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Morales had been reported missing since July 26. She texted her mother around 9:40 p.m. saying she was headed home but never arrived.

On Feb. 6, someone spotted what appeared to be human remains in the woods near a creek and called 911. The county medical examiner’s office tested the remains and later identified them as Morales’s.

“The tragic discovery of Susana’s remains this week was not the outcome anyone wanted in this case,” police said in a statement last week. “Finding out what happened is one of our top priorities.”

Authorities said Bryant lived near the area where Morales was reported missing and alleged that he “dumped her naked body in the woods,” WAGA and WXIA reported, citing a warrant application. The warrant also said the ex-officer is suspected of rape, murder and other felonies, though he hasn’t been charged with those crimes, WXIA reported.

Further, police said the Bryant filed a false report on July 27 claiming his gun was stolen in a car break-in at an apartment complex, according to WSB-TV.

Before she vanished, authorities said Morales’s cellphone and a surveillance video showed her walking in the direction of her home in Norcross. Police believe she got into a vehicle at some point.

“Morales’s cell phone continued to show being in the area of Oak Loch Trace until the cell phone died or was turned off,” authorities said.

The cause and manner of Morales’s death remain under investigation, police said.

Bryant remained in the Gwinnett County Jail without bond as of Feb. 14, online records show.
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Missing 16-year-old’s remains found in woods lead to officer’s arrest, Georgia cops say

Susana Morales had been reported missing since July 26.

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[Sejanus]

To Protect and Serve.
Not so much.

She had a pleasant face.
Condolences.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Jun 13th, 2024

A Georgia police officer who was fired after being accused of the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Susana Morales was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Miles Bryant, now 23, was convicted as charged, with the exception of an acquittal for attempted rape. Kidnapping, false report of a crime, felony murder, and malice murder offenses, however, led Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Tamela Adkins to send him to prison for the rest of his days on earth.

The case against Bryant garnered significant local and national coverage after it was alleged that the then Doraville police officer kidnapped Morales in late July 2022 as she walked home in Norcross from a friend’s house, murdered her, “dumped her naked body in the woods” in Dacula along Highway 316, and then lied that his gun was stolen when someone broke into his Ford F-150.

Susana Morales’ remains were not recovered until February 2023; the victim was identified through DNA testing and dental records. Search warrants revealed that Bryant lived “in close proximity” to Morales’ home.

Investigators said that Bryant and Morales did not know one another.

Disgraced cop locked up forever for kidnapping and murdering teen girl found dead in woods

Arrest warrants shed more light on why former Doraville police officer Miles Bryant has been charged in connection with the death of 16-year-old Susana Morales.

lawandcrime.com