Alapaha Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Brooks E. Blitch III has been the target of FBI wiretaps and electronic surveillance, according to information revealed at a hearing in Lowndes County Superior Court last week.

The hearing in Valdosta involved a motion to compel testimony from the circuit’s district attorney, and is just one more event in the increasingly complex series of inquiries that have rocked the tightly woven legal community in this five-county South Georgia circuit near Valdosta, where most of the legal business is handled by fewer than 40 attorneys and two Superior Court judges.

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