I live in Georgia also and I beleive you can have him arrested for passing a bad check. You can go to the court house and swear out a warrent, it costs you about 50 bucks, but it gets the morrons attention. Our local papers (The Dahlonega Nugget & The White County News) print the arrest records and folks are always getting locked up for this.
Sorry you got burned, but don't give up.
Paw