How a cattle sting operation in Loving County, Texas, snared Judge Skeet Jones
A cattle rustling sting resulted in the arrests of the top elected official and three ranch hands in the least-populated county in the continental United States.
Loving County Judge Skeet Jones was arrested on cattle theft and engaging in organized crime charges after special rangers devised a sting operation involving a reddish-brown cow, her calf and black yearling bull. Chelsea Stahl / NBC News; Getty Images Share Add NBC News to Google July 22, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT By Susan Carroll MENTONE, Texas — On a December day in 2021, Loving County Judge Skeet Jones, 71, climbed atop an oilfield tank surrounded by wide-open Texas desert dressed in a business suit and toting a pair of binoculars, hoping to spot an elusive black bull. Subscribe to read this story
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