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Scott Raymond Beard, a 45-year-old Bend resident who has been on paid leave from the sheriff's office since last fall, has been indicted on two counts of theft of funds from a federally-funded program; two counts of money laundering; and a single count of passport fraud.

(The Oregonian/File)

Scott Raymond Beard

UPDATE: Former Deschutes County sheriff's captain pleads guilty to embezzling $205,000

A Deschutes County Sheriff's Office captain is accused of embezzling, stealing and fraudulently obtaining more than $205,000, according to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court this week.

Capt. Scott Raymond Beard, a 45-year-old Bend resident who has been on paid leave from the agency since last fall, has been indicted on two counts of theft of funds from a federally funded program; two counts of money laundering; and a single count of passport fraud.

Beard, who is in charge of the office's detectives division, is accused of devising a scheme to embezzle, steal and fraudulently obtain money to pay for personal items beginning in at least January 2014, according to the court documents.

The personal items include payments to Krista Jean Mudrick, a former sheriff's office employee with whom he had a sexual relationship until at least September 2015, according to the documents. Beard was one of her supervisors.

The personal items also included money given to Mudrick for a motorcycle, vacations, concert tickets, gym membership, tanning expenses, rent, household expenses and cosmetic surgeries, according to the documents.

Mudrick, a 35-year-old Bend resident, has also been indicted for making a false statement to federal law enforcement agents.

Beard is accused of obtaining about $136,000 from the Deschutes County Finance Department by making fake funding requests -- or inflating existing ones -- for law enforcement and witness expenses, according to the documents.

He approves such requests for undercover drug purchases and witness expenses for the sheriff's office and interagency Central Oregon Drug Enforcement team, the documents say.

The county finance department would cut checks payable to him; he would cash them; and then keep all or a "substantial" amount of the cash for himself, the documents say.

He also is accused of stealing money and precious metals seized by the sheriff's office and interagency team, according to the documents. The cash, coins and precious metals are valued at nearly $70,000.

Beard was arrested Friday in Bend, U.S. District Court spokeswoman Gerri Badden said in a news release. He was booked into the Lane County Jail shortly before 3 p.m. Friday, according to jail records.

He's scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin in Eugene on Monday, Badden wrote. Mudrick has been issued a summons to appear at an arraignment in Eugene on Monday, as well, Badden wrote.

Beard joined the sheriff's office full-time as a deputy in 2002, according to the office's website, and was promoted to his captain role in October 2012.

He had previously worked in a reserve capacity for the sheriff's office.

-- Jim Ryan

jryan@oregonian.com

503-221-8005; @Jimryan015

Les Zaitz of The Oregonian/OregonLive staff contributed to this report