Charles Sikes is the interim Bulloch County clerk of courts, after Teresa Tucker requested, and was granted, a voluntary suspension from the elected office.Tucker, one of five current and former clerk of courts employees indicted in July on felony theft by conversion and violation of oath of public office charges, asked Gov. Nathan Deal for the voluntary suspension.After that, on Wednesday, Bulloch County Probate Judge Lee DeLoach swore in Charles Sikes as interim clerk of courts.Sikes had been named interim deputy clerk in charge of the office after the indictments were issued.Tucker, former clerk Sherri Akins, deputy clerk Leatha Deloach and former deputy clerks Marion Puckett Williams and Amanda Kay Smith were indicted July 8 after a nearly three-year investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.All five were charged with felony theft by conversion and violation of oath by public officer. Williams and Smith also are charged with public records fraud.All pleaded not guilty to those charges during a formal arraignment earlier this month.In the interim, Sikes, a former GBI special agent-in-charge for the Statesboro office, took over leadership of the clerk’s office.