{"id":1487531,"date":"2022-05-22T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487531"},"modified":"2022-05-22T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:46:24","slug":"texas-judge-arrested-charged-with-one-of-states-oldest-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-judge-arrested-charged-with-one-of-states-oldest-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Judge Arrested, Charged With One Of State\u2019s Oldest Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-judge-arrested-charged-with-one-of-states-oldest-crimes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487531&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-8.54.09-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/texas\">Texas<\/a> judge is under arrest and charged with one of the Lone Star State\u2019s oldest crimes: cattle rustling.<\/p>\n<p>Loving County Judge Skeet Lee Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswest9.com\/article\/news\/crime\/loving-county-judge-arrested-for-cattle-theft\/513-900eef73-8b1e-448e-ad21-fbd89c48aaea\">was charged May 20<\/a> with stealing livestock and engaging in organized crime after being arrested by a special ranger with the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. The arrest came after authorities allegedly determined Jones and three others had been picking up stray cows and selling them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrests came as a result of an ongoing, year-long\u00a0investigation,\u201d the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association said in a statement. \u201cThe defendants allegedly gathered estray\u00a0cattle in the area and sold them without following the\u00a0legal procedures set forth in Chapter 142 of the Texas\u00a0Agriculture Code, along with other possible violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEW?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NEW<\/a>: The Winkler County Sheriff\u2019s Office just released the mugshots of todays arrests. <\/p>\n<p>Skeet Jones\u00a0 \u2013 3 counts of Theft of Livestock < $150,000\u00a01 count of Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1xkMabOGgE\">pic.twitter.com\/1xkMabOGgE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tatum Guinn (@tatumguinn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tatumguinn\/status\/1527845556617461760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Exact details as to how the suspects allegedly stole cattle were not available. Under Texas law, if a loose livestock animal wanders onto someone\u2019s property, the property owner must report it to the sheriff, who then contacts the rightful owner to arrange its return.<\/p>\n<div>Jones, 71, who has been a judge in the tiny West Texas county, population 57, for 15 years, was taken to the nearby Winkler County jail. He and three other suspects, Cody Williams, Jonathon Alvarado, and Leroy Medlin were released after posting bond Friday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswest9.com\/article\/news\/crime\/loving-county-judge-arrested-for-cattle-theft\/513-900eef73-8b1e-448e-ad21-fbd89c48aaea\">News West 9 reported<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Winkler County is just east of Loving, which is Texas\u2019 smallest county and doesn\u2019t have its own jail, school, or even a church.<\/p>\n<div>Jones\u2019 family is influential in Loving County, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/loving-county-texas-cattle-theft-skeet-jones-rcna29719\">according to NBC News<\/a>. His sister is the county clerk; a cousin\u2019s husband is the county attorney, and Jones\u2019 nephew is the constable.<\/div>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>Jones has been in trouble before. In 2016, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct disciplined him for changing speeding tickets into parking violations to allow offenders to pay a higher fine but maintain a clean driving record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/tscra.org\/what-we-do\/theft-and-law\/\">Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association<\/a>\u00a0is part of the Texas Department of Public Safety, and its special rangers investigate livestock theft and other crimes involving farming and ranching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The idea that Jones, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/loving-county-texas-cattle-theft-skeet-jones-rcna29719\">NBC News reported<\/a> earns a $133,294 salary, would be allegedly stealing cattle was hard to fathom for one local lawyer who spoke to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYou can\u2019t make this s*** up,\u201d attorney Susan Hays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/loving-county-texas-cattle-theft-skeet-jones-rcna29719\">told NBC<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a pain in the ass to round up cattle and take them to market. And then to risk real trouble for it? It\u2019s just asinine to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas judge is under arrest and charged with one of the Lone Star State\u2019s oldest crimes: cattle rustling.Loving County Judge Skeet Lee Jones was charged May 20 with stealing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1487543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}