Posted on 10/22/2007 3:48:46 PM PDT by CHEE
Sheriff’s Department Uses DNA Evidence to Solve Cattle Theft 10/22/2007 (courtesy Coleman County Attorney's Office) Old fashioned cattle theft has met up with technology and the result is an arrest and conviction.
According to Heath Hemphill, Coleman County Attorney, on May 24, 2007, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Rhodes of Midland, Texas reported three calves, weighing approximately 300 lbs., to be missing from their property located in Coleman County. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes reside in Midland but own and operate approximately 500 acres in Coleman County near County Roads 130 and 119. The case was assigned to Deputy Vickie Plummer of the Coleman County Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Plummer was told by Mr. Rhodes that the calves were last seen in April and still could not be found. Deputy Plummer advised Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Investigator, Joe Roberts, of the theft and began her investigation of the case
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Very Interesting. A precursor of things to come in the field of agri-business, perhaps.
The TSCRA are good!
Doesn't’t sound like the name of the typical Texas cowpoke, does it?
H.O. Lee Bible?
King James Bible?
B. Lee V. Bible?
Faith N. Bible?
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