{"id":360444,"date":"2026-08-02T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360444\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:24:08","slug":"man-accused-of-buying-159k-in-cattle-with-bad-checks-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360444\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of buying $159K in cattle with bad checks, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEON COUNTY, Texas. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/2026\/08\/01\/texas-man-arrested-after-buying-159k-cattle-with-bad-checks-sheriff-says\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/2026\/08\/01\/texas-man-arrested-after-buying-159k-cattle-with-bad-checks-sheriff-says\/\">KWTX<\/a>\/Gray News) &#8211; A man in Texas is accused of purchasing dozens of cattle with bad checks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities began their investigation on July 17, 2026, after receiving a report that a person had purchased 77 head of cattle from Buffalo Livestock Marketing Inc. using nonsufficient funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The total value of the nonsufficient funds checks used in the purchase was $159,604.03, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Payton Dean Carroll, 25, was arrested by the Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office. He was charged with second-degree felony cattle theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At this time, details are limited. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEON COUNTY, Texas. (KWTX\/Gray News) &#8211; A man in Texas is accused of purchasing dozens of cattle with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[146868,265,146867,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-360444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-cattle-fraud","tag-crime","tag-crime-texas","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}