WAYNESBORO, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A day after pleading not guilty to federal charges against him, embattled Burke County Sheriff Alfonzo Williams faced a grand jury indictment on state charges. Court documents show Williams was indicted Thursday on four felony counts: According to the Burke County grand jury indictment, the false-statement counts stem from accusations that Williams entered bogus training records into the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council’s electronic system for a Waynesboro police officer. Alfonzo Williams indicted on state charges by steven.byerly Prosecutors allege that on Jan. 9, 2023, Williams reported that Officer Gary Jenkins had attended and completed a de-escalation training course at the Burke County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 29, 2022, even though Williams allegedly knew Jenkins had not completed that course. A second count alleges that on Jan. 16, 2023, Williams reported that Jenkins had attended and completed a community policing course on the same date, again knowing that was not true, according to the indictment. The theft by conversion counts accuse Williams of misusing money tied to his role as sheriff. One count alleges that between Jan. 31, 2017, and Oct. 24, 2022, Williams converted more than $25,000 in seized cash to his own use. Prosecutors say those funds had been delivered into his official custody as sheriff and that he was under a legal obligation to safeguard the money and use it only as allowed by law and court order.…
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