Articles by Brad Bowman

Steroids, silencers and Kentucky State Police

Since April, I’ve been waiting to write definitively about where things stand in regards to steroids, silencers and Kentucky State Police. Yes, you read that right. There’s a few loose ends “On The Bourbon Trail”…


New plead and new leads

New plead and new leads The past two weeks have blown the #Pappygate, bourbon-theft, steroid ring investigation up with a new plead and new leads. Want to read this blog from the first entry? Click here…


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Tracing the bourbon trail

Moving stolen bourbon never looked so easy. In tracing the bourbon trail, statements revealed transactions and deliveries from Casey County into Cincinnati. But as I write this in July based off of investigation documents from…


Two barns for one bourbon trail

To read On the Bourbon Trail chronologically, click here , scroll down to the first June entry or  go to June on the archive calendar.  ________________ Once the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office gave a press…


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No bottle, not on the taxpayer’s dime

It looked bad enough a police officer admitted to buying steroids with the alleged bourbon/steroid crime ring leader Toby Curtsinger, but this scheme also involved Kentucky State Trooper Vehicle Enforcement Officer Steve Oliver.


Bragging and three more barrels…

All it usually takes for criminals to get caught is greed or  bragging. In this investigation, it was a little bit of both. Just a week after  the initial break in the “Pappygate” and steroid…