A retired Alabama police officer said police were told in the 1970s to make sure now-GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore Roy Stewart MooreVulnerable Senate Democrat urges unity: 'Not about what side of the aisle we're on' Sessions hits back at Trump days ahead of Alabama Senate runoff Judge allows Roy Moore lawsuit over Sacha Baron Cohen prank to proceed MORE stayed away from high school cheerleaders.

Former Gadsden police officer Faye Gary told MSNBC that the "rumor mill was that he liked young girls."

“We were advised that he was being suspended from the mall because he would hang around the young girls that worked in the stores and, you know, really got into a place of where they say he was harassing,” former Gadsden police officer Faye Gary told MSNBC on Tuesday.

Several women, most of whom were teenagers at the time, have accused Moore of pursuing and harassing them at the local Gadsden Mall, in Gadsden, Ala, in 1977. Moore was in his 30s at the time.

Several sources told The New Yorker that Moore's interest in young women at the mall was well-known at the time. A local Alabama reporter has also claimed Moore was banned at some point from the mall because of his actions.

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“And we were also told to watch him at the ball games, and make sure that he didn’t hang around the cheerleaders," according to Gary on MSNBC.