Pierce County Council tags former US attorney to investigate Sheriff Ed Troyer Pierce County Council Chair Derek Young. (Pierce County Television, YouTube) Pierce County Council approved a motion Tuesday to contract former U.S. District Attorney Brian Moran to head up an investigation into Sheriff Ed Troyer. Troyer recently came under scrutiny following the revelation of a late-January incident, where he called the police on a Black newspaper delivery driver. Then in late March, Pierce County Council Chair Derek Young directed council staff to begin the process of investigating the incident. The incident in question was first reported on by the Seattle Times, describing how Troyer had reported seeing a car moving in and out of a neighbor’s driveway at 2 a.m. with its headlights off. He then confronted the driver, identified as 24-year-old Sedrick Altheimer, before making a call to dispatch that had an estimated 42 units from around the region sent to the scene.