 A Pike County attorney is facing charges of stealing more than $800,000 from his clients. This week, a Pike County grand jury indicted Timothy Belcher of Elkhorn City on felony theft charges. Pike Commonwealth's attorney Bill Sloan says the money in question was awarded to Belcher's clients following a tragic car accident. In March of 2004, Mr. Belcher opened up an account at a local bank and it was opened up under his federal ID number of his law office, his practice, and it was for his practice and it said for the children of Samuel Johnson. There was about $600,000 initially, it wasn't that account in 2004, well in 2007 that account had grown to somewhere around $830,000. About that time, mid-2007, Mr. Belcher began taking money out of that account and systematically took money out of that account for his own personal use. We have traced that some of the money is spent, the substantial amount of it is spent to purchase the building that his law office is in. Sloan told Mountain Top News the theft was recently discovered when one of the children who is now an adult tried to contact Belcher to access the funds that belong to her. The youngest child was looking for the money and couldn't make contact with Mr. Belcher and that's how it was discovered that that money was no longer there and to find out now that the person that was hired and probably was paid pretty good to represent those children's rights has stolen the money. We will find out if Mr. Belcher has any assets that we can seek a forfeiture on in order to compensate the three victims in this case. Timothy Belcher could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.