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Former TCPD Capt. Dean Foley dies

Dean Wayne Foley

By DEUCE NIVEN

     Dean Wayne Foley, a former Tabor City Police Department officer and law enforcement veteran most recently living near Whiteville, died Tuesday. He was 50.

     Born in Warren, Ohio, Foley Grew up in the Loris area, attended Loris High School, and attended divinity school at Baptist College in Charleston.

     He served the Tabor City Police Department from August 1992 through February 2013, leaving for just two months in 2004, then returning.

     Health issues prompted his decision to leave the department in February 2013, Police Chief Donald Dowless said.

     Funeral arrangements have been posted here, a guest register here.

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