Crime & Safety

Oconee County Man Breaks With Brenda, Who Was Really Oscar

Oscar, who lives in Texas, has been calling in false crimes to the sheriff's office after being spurned.

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A Texan named Brenda had an 8-month, long-distance relationship with a 44-year-old Oconee County man. As things turned out, Brenda is really a man named Oscar, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald.

When the Oconee County man discovered she was a he, he cut off contact with Oscar, who's in Eagle Pass, Texas. So Oscar started calling the Oconee County Sheriff's Department, the story says, and reporting, falsely, various criminal activities.

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The sheriff said the repeated calls had created a slight problem for his employees, but "we have a good idea on how to handle the next one," the story says.


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