A federal grand jury in Valdosta has indicted the Sheriff in South Georgia’s Clinch County with perjury and obstruction of justice. Winston Peterson pled not guilty and was released on $10,000 bond yesterday. The indictment accuses the Sheriff of lying during a grand jury investigation into the courthouse activities of Judge Brooks Blitch the Third. Prosecutors also say Peterson alerted an un-indicted co-conspirator to the identity of an F.B.I. informant and used an inmate to work at a business run by his wife.
