New charges against a Henry County sheriff's deputy include accepting payoffs from a cocaine dealer in exchange for helping him keep tabs on the authorities.

Robert Keith Adams, 42, was indicted for a second time last week on six counts that include being an accessory to a crime, tampering with a witness, obstructing justice and making false statements to investigators.

Adams originally was indicted in October along with 19 others in a 48-count indictment. Adams faced only one count of making false statements in the first indictment and was scheduled to stand trial Jan. 10 and 11.

Other deputies were charged with crimes such as selling narcotics, racketeering, obstruction of justice and perjury, and former sheriff Frank Cassell has been accused of looking the other way.

Adams' original charge was dismissed by a federal judge two days after the new indictment.

The former school resource officer and sergeant in the investigations unit of the Henry County Sheriff's Office is alleged to have known that Sgt. James Alden Vaught had stolen two kilograms of cocaine from a drug dealer and distributed the drugs with the help of three other dealers.

But Adams never turned in Vaught or arrested him, prosecutors say.

According to the new indictment, Adams also incorrectly believed that Vaught had obtained $40,000 in drug money, so he tried unsuccessfully to persuade Vaught to pay him half of that.

Prosecutors say one of the dealers who helped Vaught distribute the two kilos was Rayfield Moore, who was arrested in possession of 33 kilograms of cocaine in March.

It was Moore, the indictment says, who paid Adams for information about law enforcement activities.

Moore, 57, was killed in a vehicle crash in Franklin County on Nov. 3. Investigators have said they do not suspect foul play in the crash.

Adams' attorney, Terry Grimes, said he had no idea how much money his client is alleged to have received from Moore, but he is trying to obtain that information.

About a year ago, Vaught asked Adams to help him find Wilbert Herman Brown, a man he believed could sell a half-kilo of cocaine for him, court records show. But Adams instead told Brown to stay away from Vaught because he might be wearing a wire and informing for the government.

Much of the evidence against the defendants in the case does stem from recorded conversations obtained by Vaught for federal agents, prosecutors have said.

Later, the indictment claims, Adams lied to investigators, saying that he did not know why Vaught was trying to find Brown and that he had never received any payments from Moore.

Adams' case will proceed separately from the other defendants' cases. Two other deputies have pleaded guilty, and Vaught and another deputy are scheduled to plead guilty today.