On Friday, May 20, Judge Skeet Jones, a county judge from Loving County, Texas, was arrested for cattle theft, along with a former sheriff’s deputy and two ranch labourers.
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Judge Skeet Jones who has been the senior elected official in the least populated county in loving County since 2007 was suspected of rounding up and selling stray cattle. He is facing three felony counts of livestock theft and one count of engaging in criminal activity.
Jones, a member of a powerful ranching family that settled in Loving County in the 1950s, was arrested on Friday and freed on a $20,000 bond, according to court documents. He did not respond to inquiries for comment.
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Former Loving County deputy Leroy Medlin Jr., 35, was also arrested on one count of engaging in criminal activity, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Medlin did not respond to phone calls, but his wife sent an email questioning the arrests’ reasons. “At full force,” she wrote, “we are being targeted.”
A spokesman for the association, Jeremy Fuchs, said the year-long investigation is still underway and that further charges could be filed.
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