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topicnews · July 17, 2025

GBI name Assistant Special Agent responsible for the Georgia Cyber Crime Center

GBI name Assistant Special Agent responsible for the Georgia Cyber Crime Center

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has promoted Jerri Lynn Coody to the deputy special representative of the GBI Georgia Cyber Crime Center.

Jerri Lynn Coody

The center, known as the G3C, carries out complex examinations that concern cyber-capable crime, cryptocurrency and digital forensics, said the GBI in a statement.

“Assistant Special Agent, who has held the promotion of Coody from Coody, is proof of her commitment, professionalism and decades of investigative experience,” said GBI director Chris Hosey.

Coody began her GBI career in 1999 as an anesthetic that the Oconee Drug Task Force was assigned. She had positions at the Macon Regional Drug Enforcement Office, the GBI Regional Investigative Office in Perry, the region of the 10 Atlanta and the 6 Milledgeville region. She worked as a public corruption agent with the Department of Special Investigations Unit before being promoted to the deputy agent for the Georgia Cyber Crime Center in Augusta.

Coody comes from Hawkinsville and completed the North Georgia College and State University with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and the National Forensic Academy at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.