I guess we can be thankful he didn’t call SWAT. Owens, a retired Cobb police major, is the county’s first-ever African American sheriff, elected in 2020 and has largely kept out of the limelight.

David Cavender, who lost the Cobb County sheriff’s race to incumbent Craig Owens Sr. this month, sued Owens weeks after kicking off a stream of online ridicule against the sheriff by accusing ...