Crime & Safety

Man Found Dead in Oconee County was from Cumming

Robby Oliver Barden, 41, was found Feb. 13.

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office have identified the body found last week at a vacant house near Watkinsville to be a man from Cumming.

Sheriff Scott Berry said Robby Oliver Barden, 41, was found Feb. 13 in a subdivision off U.S. 78, according to a post on the office’s Facebook page. Barden’s last known address was 8469 Lake Hollow Drive in Cumming.

The family in Palm Bay, Fla., was notified of the death Thursday, according to the post.

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The cause of death is not known, pending a toxicology report from the GBI. Foul play is not suspected.


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