In Memoriam
Special Agent Garland E. Fields
![Special Agent Fields](/sites/dps.georgia.gov/files/styles/square/public/2022-08/Garland%20Fields%20edited.jpg?h=ca56336c&itok=BJC-haki)
Date of Birth: |
October 23, 1908 |
Hometown: |
Swainsboro, GA |
Trooper School: |
Not Yet Attended |
Assignment: |
Swainsboro, GA |
Date of Death: |
March 3, 1948 |
Interred: |
Swainsboro City Cemetery |
Details of Incident: |
Agent Fields, with less than a month on the job, was involved in a gun battle while investigating suspicious individuals at the Lighthouse Restaurant in Swainsboro on GA 4. He was the first Georgia Bureau of Investigation killed in the line of duty. |