Two cowboys accused of stealing heifers from Kansas feedlot

PAWNEE COUNTY — Two Kansas males appeared within the Pawnee County District Court docket, Tuesday for a Preliminary Listening to on one depend of Felony Theft of property price between $1,500 and $25,000, in keeping with Pawnee County Lawyer Doug McNett.

Ruben Lopez-Lupercio, 42, and Axel Elian Gomez-Saldana, 24, each of Larned, are accused of stealing eleven heifers.

Proof introduced on the preliminary listening to indicated an investigation was opened after a State Cattle Model Inspector acknowledged feedlot completed heifers trying to be bought on the La Crosse sale barn on December 10, 2021.

The matter was then referred to the Lawyer Normal’s Livestock/Model investigation unit who decided a number of the heifers had been branded with a model registered to a Pawnee County Feedlot.

With the help of the Pawnee County Sheriff’s Division, it was later decided that Lopez-Lupercio and Gomez-Saldana had been employed as cowboys on the feedlot close to Pawnee Rock, Kansas. They had been arrested with out incident on the feedlot on January 6, 2022, after the feedlot possession determined to press costs, in keeping with McNett. 

Following the listening to, the Justice of the Peace choose decided the State had introduced ample proof to assist the cost and certain the pair over to the upper courtroom. Arraignment has been scheduled for September 15, 2022.