In the rural landscape of Columbia County, Georgia, a chapter of law enforcement history was tragically written on February 22, 1928, with the death of Prohibition Agent Walter Red Tolbert. A native of South Carolina, the 27-year-old male agent was a member of the Bureau of Prohibition, an agency tasked with enforcing the nationwide ban on alcohol.
On that fateful day, Agent Tolbert, along with local officers W. S. Harrison and D. T. Fuller, set out to dismantle an illegal distillery oper
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