Kansas Starts Up a Special Crime Unit to Go After Cattle Rustlers
Prairie-dwelling cattle thieves, take heed.
Since the formation late last year of a special unit, lead investigator Kendal Lothman has been on a quest to clean up a crime that resulted in more than a million dollars in statewide losses between 2011 and 2014.
Think of him as a one-man posse devoted solely to stopping cattle rustlin’.
That cattle theft needs its own state-level investigative unit should come as no surprise to those in Kansas, a state that currently claims more than twice as many cattle as humans.
Though far from a new crime — cattle theft has been an issue in rural communities for generations and was a factor in the formation of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in the 1930s — it has persisted over time, often increasing along with the price of beef.
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