{"id":394848,"date":"2026-08-01T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394848\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:05:08","slug":"texas-man-arrested-after-buying-159k-in-cattle-with-bad-checks-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394848\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man arrested after buying $159K in cattle with bad checks, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">LEON COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) \u2014 <\/a> A 25-year-old man faces a second-degree felony charge after allegedly purchasing dozens of head of cattle with bad checks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Payton Dean Carroll, of Barry, Texas, was arrested by the Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office Criminal Investigations Division on a charge of Theft of Property between $150,000 and $300,000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Payton Dean Carroll, of Barry, Texas, was arrested by the Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RGI3YZHKRZAUHEX54CMH3PPNSI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Payton Dean Carroll, of Barry, Texas, was arrested by the Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office Criminal Investigations Division on a charge of Theft of Property between $150,000 and $300,000.(Leon County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities began their investigation on July 17, 2026, after receiving a report that an individual had purchased 77 head of cattle from Buffalo Livestock Marketing, Inc. using non-sufficient funds (NSF) checks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The total value of the bad checks used in the purchase came to $159,604.03, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leon County Sheriff Kevin Ellis extended thanks to the Buffalo Police Department, the Texas &amp; Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and the Navarro County Sheriff\u2019s Office for their assistance throughout the multi-agency investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEON COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) \u2014 A 25-year-old man faces a second-degree felony charge after allegedly purchasing dozens of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[125763,138909,3006,138910,138908,138906,138907,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-394848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-barry","tag-buffalo-livestock-marketing","tag-inc","tag-leon-county-sheriff-kevin-ellis","tag-leon-county-sheriffs-office","tag-payton-dean-carroll","tag-payton-dean-carroll-accused-of-buying-cattle-with-bad-checks","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}