SBI investigates Alamance County cattle rustling case
The Old West crime of cattle rustling is alive and well in Alamance County, where farmer Ronald Kirkpatrick is offering a $10,000 reward for information about how black Angus cattle in his K-Farms herd came to be replaced with cattle of lesser quality.
Posted — Updated"That number is real big anywhere," said Bryan Blinson, executive director of the N.C. Cattlemen's Association.
"When you're talking about that kind of number, you're talking about multiple trailer loads. It's a big one."
Kenneth Sykes, who lives down the road from K-Farms, said he noticed a heavy-duty pickup truck making multiple trips.
"And it was always loaded going in and loaded going out,” Sykes said, but it didn't arouse his suspicion.
Another neighbor, J.T. Riley, noticed the traffic too.
"I think it was Easter weekend, and we seen truckload after truckload going in and out," he said.
“I wouldn’t never think somebody would come out here and take this man’s cattle, you know, like they did," Sykes said. "That’s pretty low.”
Riley said he worries he let his neighbor down.
"If I could have caught on to it sooner, I could have stopped everything,” he said.
Anyone with information about the theft is asked to call Agent Thomas at 336-256-1362.
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