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November 30, 2004
Cattle Rustlers Update
More details have been discovered about the 5 cattle rustlers recently arrested locally, and it's becoming clearer that them boys ain't too bright. (Registration req'd, use bugmenot, bugmenot. Or whatever.)
According to Boone County investigators, two men in a truck without tags delivered five head of 500-600 pound cattle in a horse trailer to a Washington County sale barn very early one morning in late October. The cattle had blood dripping from their ears, which made stockyard workers suspect identification tags had been ripped from their ears.
The men apparently used fictitious names and addresses, and stammered and hesitated when asked for that information. Those traits made stockyard workers suspicious, and they recorded the tag number from the horse trailer and gave it to police, investigators said.
After their arrests, the suspects revealed even more stupidity.
After authorities rounded up the suspects, some of them started talking about a couple of saddles that were reported stolen from a roping event in San Angelo, Texas, and that one of the saddkes [sic] could be found at a saddle shop at Clifty in Madison County, Boyd said.
One saddle was recovered from Clifty, Arkansas, the other one was found in Missouri. Since they were stolen in Texas, and each saddle was worth more than $4000.....that's federal time, baby.
You know, if they'd expended half as much energy doing honest work, they wouldn't be in that mess.
Criminals never understand that.
Posted by Rita at November 30, 2004 11:57 AM