Over a month after District Attorney Paul Bowden said the investigation into allegations against the City of Tifton would require additional scrutiny by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Bowden has not communicated to the GBI what areas of the probe require more information.

Mike Lewis of the GBI’s Sylvester office, when asked by The Gazette on Tuesday if he had gotten the information from Bowden he needed, responded, “I’m still talking about it.”

Lewis said he was not sure that he had all of the information from Bowden he needed to complete the investigation. He said, “I just don’t know.”

In early May, Bowden had said he did not have a time frame for communicating with the GBI about the additional information he wanted in order to complete the investigation.

In early March, Lewis said the GBI had completed their investigation into alleged improprieties with the city’s handling of zoning requests and the investigative file was then turned over to Bowden. It was on April 17 that Bowden said the investigation of the City of Tifton would require additional scrutiny by the GBI.

Bowden had not returned a call from The Gazette at press time.

To contact reporter Jana Cone, call 382-4321, ext. 208.