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Battle Ground police Sgt. Richard Kelly confiscated illicit drugs hours before he suffered a fatal overdose in his office, the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office found.
In the first batch of records from a Cowlitz County review of Kelly’s death, the agency sought to answer questions from the former Battle Ground police chief about Kelly’s on-the-job death.
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