MCCLAIN COUNTY, OK -- Oklahoma lawmen tell us they've nabbed a modern-day cattle rustler. After a months of searching for their thief, a lucky traffic stop provided their big break. A McClain County deputy pulled over a truck and trailer for a simple violation. That's when he realized it matched the description of suspects they were after. He asked to search the driver's truck and found receipts from livestock sale barns across the state.
Austin Green is a special ranger for the local cattle raisers association; better summed up, he chases stolen cattle for a living.
He's been going to sale barns across the state to track down 40-year-old Scotty Austin; a man they believe has been sneaking on Oklahoma farms in the dark of night and stealing livestock.
Special Ranger Austin Green with the TX & SW Cattle Raisers Assoc. said, "He'd find locations in the rural counties and no one's out at night. So, he'd get whatever he could in his trailer and take 'em to the sale barn."
At about $1,500 each, they say he was banking from multiple cow thefts in multiple counties.
Authorities say he has stolen 30 to 40 head of cattle in McClain County alone.
Austin was arrested at his home in Edmond.
He was booked in the Grady County jail last week, but taken to Caddo County's jail Wednesday to face the same larceny charges there.
He will go from one to the next until he has been in court in all six counties where he has been accused of stealing.
Authorities are still investigating Austin and say it's likely they will find his crime spree has reached more counties than have been reported.
Austin Green is a special ranger for the local cattle raisers association; better summed up, he chases stolen cattle for a living.
He's been going to sale barns across the state to track down 40-year-old Scotty Austin; a man they believe has been sneaking on Oklahoma farms in the dark of night and stealing livestock.
Special Ranger Austin Green with the TX & SW Cattle Raisers Assoc. said, "He'd find locations in the rural counties and no one's out at night. So, he'd get whatever he could in his trailer and take 'em to the sale barn."
At about $1,500 each, they say he was banking from multiple cow thefts in multiple counties.
Authorities say he has stolen 30 to 40 head of cattle in McClain County alone.
Austin was arrested at his home in Edmond.
He was booked in the Grady County jail last week, but taken to Caddo County's jail Wednesday to face the same larceny charges there.
He will go from one to the next until he has been in court in all six counties where he has been accused of stealing.
Authorities are still investigating Austin and say it's likely they will find his crime spree has reached more counties than have been reported.
