{"id":395244,"date":"2026-08-02T04:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395244\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T04:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:24:16","slug":"texas-man-charged-with-cattle-theft-after-buying-77-head-on-bad-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395244\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man charged with cattle theft after buying 77 head on bad checks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A 25-year-old Texas<\/a> man faces charges after he allegedly bought dozens of cattle with bad checks.<\/p>\n

Payton Dean Carroll was charged with felony second-degree cattle theft<\/a> after purchasing 77 head of cattle from Buffalo Livestock Marketing, Inc., the Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Department said in a release on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The alleged theft totaled $159,604.03.<\/p>\n

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Payton Dean Carroll was charged with felony second-degree cattle theft after purchasing 77 head of cattle from Buffalo Livestock Marketing, Inc., with bad checks, the Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Department said. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images; Leon County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office\u2019s Criminal Investigations Division<\/a> began investigating Carroll on July 17 after receiving a report of the alleged crime.<\/p>\n

THE SINGLE CRUSHING PROBLEM AMERICAN CATTLE RANCHERS WISH TRUMP WOULD FIX INSTEAD<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cattle rest in a field on June 5, 2026 in Hamilton, Texas. (Brandon Bell\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“Our office extends thanks to Buffalo Police Department<\/a>, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and Navarro County Sheriff\u2019s Office for their assistance throughout this investigation,” the sheriff\u2019s office said in the release.<\/p>\n

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The Leon County Sheriff’s Office in Centerville Texas. (Google Maps)<\/p>\n

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Carroll is from Barry, Texas, according to the sheriff’s department.<\/p>\n

Brie Stimson is a Los Angeles-based entertainment and breaking news writer for Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 25-year-old Texas man faces charges after he allegedly bought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,46022,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-395244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime","tag-robbery-theft","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395244","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=395244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}