Weights Inspector Sentenced After Taking $530K to Rig Gas Pump Calibrations

On May 21st, 2026, Jeffrey Allen Carrigan — a 16-year senior Weights and Measures Inspector for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture's Division of Regulation and Inspection in Ashburn County — pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison at FCI Manchester after a 13-month joint investigation by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture's Office of Inspector General, the Kentucky Attorney General's Office, the FBI Louisville Field Office, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology revealed he had accepted approximately $530,000 in bribes from 14 retail fueling stations across a four-county eastern Kentucky district to falsify gasoline dispenser calibration inspections. Carrigan was charged under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 (wire fraud), § 1956 (money laundering), and § 666 (theft from a federally funded program), as well as multiple Kentucky state counts including abuse of public trust and theft by unlawful taking. The scheme, sustained over six years, involved Carrigan filing fabricated Handbook 44 calibration reports for inspections he never conducted, allowing dispensers deliberately mis-calibrated to short customers by up to 1.8 percent per gallon to remain in service. Investigators ultimately tied the fraud to approximately $2.4 million in consumer harm. The case was broken by a long-haul truck driver whose onboard fuel-consumption telemetry flagged consistent short-pours over several months; his complaint, paired with photographic and video documentation he personally collected at the pump, triggered the state review. The smoking gun was Carrigan's own state-issued dashcam footage, which showed him arriving at 47 inspected stations, accepting envelopes from managers, and leaving without ever removing his calibrated testing equipment from the vehicle — while the corresponding inspection reports each claimed a full calibration sequence had been completed. Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.