This just in...

from a newly volunteered mole. There is a truck stop at Exit 14, the Woodbine exit. My informant can not attest to what the current owner may be doing now, but does attest to certain knowledge that the prior owner operated some games of chance similar to slot machines. Winnings on those types of machines are only legal in Georgia if given as vouchers, or "store credits." The previous operator was actually paying out cash to winning customers, according to my informant. The owner of the property, alledgedly a high ranking officer in the CCSO - to this day - was fully aware of what the operator was doing, according to my informant. He simply told him to keep a low profile with the activity. While my informant can not say for an absolute certainty that Sheriff Bill Smith also knew of the illegal gambling activity, he can attest that the sheriff was a close friend of said previous operator - so close that he gave the operator a brand spanking new - and quite expensive - H&K .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol - the very same model which had just become standard issue for the CCSO deputies at about that same time. How the purchase of that particular pistol was funded bears looking into. I have no way of verifying this 100%, but my subjective take during my conversation with the informant was that he was being truthful. It's beginning to look more and more like the day the feds make actual arrests at the CCSO, they are going to need a bus.