Thursday, May 5, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5B
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harder to crack than past
United Press International
FORT WORTH — The
Texas and Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Association, dedicated
to the investigation of livestock
theft, has accounted for 600
stolen head of cattle with one
arrest, but an official says the
cases are getting harder to crack.
“Technology has made a real
difference in cattle rustling.
These goose-neck trailers are so
big anymore, you can take 20 or
30 head at one time,” said Don
C. King, general manager of the
Fort Worth-based TSCRA.
“And the distances are so
great these days. You can pick
up a load of cattle, hit the inter
state and be hundreds of miles
away in no time,” he said.
King said the recent arrest of
Roger Allen Marlow, 49, of
Hagarville, Ark., on charges of
cattle theft was a good example
of how a modern rustler could
combine better equipment, bet
ter roads and erractic laws to
clear a quarter million profit.
When Marlow was arrested at
the end of April he admitted
stealing almost 450 head of cat
tle in Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas over the past two years.
TSCRA inspectors have since
linked him to another 150 head
of stolen cattle and say the total
could go higher.
Marlow admitted stealing cat
tle as far away as Ellsworth, Kan
sas, and Woodward, Okla., and
transporting them to a holding
area in his hometown about 60
miles east of the Oklahoma bor
der on 1-40.
“Rustlers today have better
trucks than you and I do. They
keep all the the licenses in order,
the lights working. They stay
under the speed limit so they
don’t draw anybody’s attention,”
King said.
“(Marlow) was careful about
it,” he said. “He didn’t steal any
thing in his home state, so he
didn’t raise any suspicion among
local agents. Arkansas doesn’t
have a branding law or an in
spection law, so it was almost im
possible to trace the stolen
cattle.”
King said many of the cattle
were sold openly in sales barns
in Arkansas and some already
had been slaughtered by the
time agents broke the case. The
average price per head was ab
out $350, King said.
King said only Texas and
New Mexico have tough re
quirements at the point of sale
that could ease tracing of stolen
animals. At Texas cattle auctions
brand inspection is required and
vital information — such as col
or and special markings — is re
corded.
Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Louisiana, however, have no
such laws, which King said made
finding stolen animals nearly
impossible.
King said in his 20 years with
the TSCRA cattle rustling had
not diminished. He said last year
the privately funded group de
veloped 195 cases of livestock
theft — of which 92 came to
trial. He estimated that last year
more than $1 million worth of
cattle were stolen.
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