SWAT deployed in DeKalb County

A SWAT team was deployed to a neighborhood near Lithonia in DeKalb County Thursday evening.

No details were immediately available about why the heavily armed team was sent, but a county dispatcher told the AJC at 8:30 p.m. that the officers were dispatched to 1397 Bentley Woods Trail, off Redan Road.

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