GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- Two northeast Georgia men pleaded guilty today in Gainesville to run`ing a moonshine still hidden in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Brett Jarrard and Max Moss, both of Clayton, were among four people a federal grand jury charged in July with producing the illegal liquor in Rabun County in north Georgia from January 2005 to February 2006.
Authorities said they destroyed six stills overall and seized more than a thousand gallons of moonshine.
A sentencing date has not been set.
The 46-year-old Jarrard faces up to 35 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to six counts of unlawfully manufacturing and transferring distilled liquor and failing to pay taxes on it, as well as one count of unlawful receipt of untaxed liquor. The 70-year-old Moss could be sentenced to five years after he pleaded guilty to one count of unlawfully manufacturing and transferring distilled liquor and failing to pay taxes on the operation.
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There's beer in Texarkana and they're thirsty in Atlanta. Just watch ol' bandit run!
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