The Taylor County Sheriff's Department confirms Brian Pickard was suspended after the sheriff noticed discrepancies in an invoice. The evidence was then turned over to Kentucky State Police, and Pickard was fired.

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A federal grand jury has indicted a former Taylor County law enforcement officer on charges that he used his agency's DEA registration to fraudulently obtain thousands of prescription painkillers over a nearly three-year span- allegedly claiming the pills were for K-9 training that never happened.

A grand jury indicted Brian Pickard earlier this month on 10 federal charges. The indictment lays out several counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, a felony under federal law, for a series of purchases dating back to April 2022.

According to the indictment, Pickard repeatedly used the Taylor County Sheriff's Office DEA registration number to buy large quantities of Oxycodone and Hydrocodone- Schedule II controlled substances- by claiming the pills were for a K-9 training program. Prosecutors allege that program was fake: the pills, according to the indictment, "were never used for training."