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April 23, 2005
No Good Deed
You know, there's some people out there who are just pretty damn sorry.
Earlier this year, a calf wandered onto Mobley’s property. His wife, Julie, said Friday that her husband had recognized it as belonging to James Lindsey, a Clay County deputy sheriff. "He told James not to worry about the calf, he’d take care of it until he took the other cattle to sale," Julie Mobley said.
But on Feb. 21, Mike Mobley saw the same calf up for sale at the Paragould Livestock Auction.
Mobley talked to the auction owner and discovered a check for $383 made out to Wesley Poole, Julie Mobley said, repeating what she had earlier told sheriff’s office investigators. Her husband told Poole he wanted him to return the check to Lindsey and own up to the theft, Mobley said. "He wanted to give [Poole] another chance," she said. "He didn’t want to ruin his life."
Unfortunately, Mr. Mobley had a heart attack & died before he could pass the check on to the calf's rightful owner. Not knowing what had happened, the family returned the check to Poole.....who cashed it.
But it gets worse.
On the day of Mike Mobley’s funeral, Cole said, Poole and Causey took 10 of Mobley’s cattle and later sold them at the Cord-Charlotte Livestock Auction in Independence County for $6,177.
Doesn't get much lower than that, does it?
If that weren't bad enough, the boys came back about 2 weeks later and stole 14 more cattle & sold them.
They ought to be horsewhipped.
Posted by Rita at April 23, 2005 06:57 AM