ATLANTA, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office issued the following press release:
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SAVANNAH, Georgia: Burke County Sheriff Alfonzo Williams, 55, of Waynesboro, Georgia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia on five counts of Extortion Under the Color of Official Right and one count of Transfer of a Firearm to a Convicted Felon.
The indictment, returned by the July term of the grand jury, alleges the offenses occurred from August 2021 to April 2022, with the indictment asserting that Williams requested and accepted monetary payments from five individuals in exchange for dismissing pending citati...