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Georgia Investigators 'Confident' In Arrests Made In Ahmaud Arbery Case

William "Roddie" Bryan has said he was a witness. "I can tell you that if we believed he was a witness we wouldn't have arrested him," the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says.

Updated at 2:35 p.m. ET

The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has raised doubts that the third man charged in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case was nothing more than a witness, as he proclaimed prior to his arrest.

"I can tell you that if we believed he was a witness we wouldn't have arrested him," GBI Director Vic Reynolds said in

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