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DeKalb County Sheriff Jeffrey Mann Credit: Jason Getz Credit: Jason Getz

Perryman said he wanted to do something a little different for his last few days, so he wore the wig as he directed traffic two weeks ago outside the county’s courthouse, Channel 2 reported. He said bystanders took pictures and enjoyed it.

“You know that made me feel a little joyous about that being my last week,” he said.

He told the news station he doesn’t expect to miss any pay because of his resignation, but his records won’t reflect that he retired.

“My plan was to finish with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office with 20 years of service, and I got robbed from that,” Perryman said.

A week after Channel 2 and AJC.com reported on Perryman’s forced resignation, Chief Deputy Melony Maddox spoke out about the incident, refuting some of the language.

“I was very disturbed at the fact that he would say that the sheriff and myself stated that he was a disgrace to the uniform,” she told the news station. “Those words never came out of my mouth nor the sheriff’s mouth.”

The deputy said he was called a "disgrace to the uniform," but the office's top brass say that's not true.

Maddox added that the wig didn’t reflect the “seriousness of the trials” at the courthouse, and that the whole incident was prompted by a citizen’s complaint. However, she told Channel 2 she doesn’t consider it a forced resignation since he isn’t losing any pay, and she also wished Perryman the best, thanking him for his two decades of service.

For Perryman, he’s left DeKalb for a post-retirement gig in California, he told Channel 2.