Minn. officials find and return stolen ram

By Lauren Lover
The Bradenton Herald

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman was arrested after police said she committed “a crime that city residents don't often need to talk about.”

The 42-year-old woman was charged with cattle theft, Chief Booker T. Hodges of the Bloomington Police Department said in an Oct. 24 news conference.

Police officers responded to a farm in Bloomington around 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 9 “to a report of a man and a woman walking a dog and what appeared to be a sheep,” Hodges said.

The woman told officers she bought the ram, but Hodges said that “turned out to be untrue.”

Police learned that the woman dragged the ram away from the farm using the strap of a duffel bag, nearly suffocating it, Hodges said.

The video shared during the interaction conference shows the woman's back covered in burrs.

Hodges said they were “the same burrs that are next to the farm.”

A farm employee confirmed to police that the ram, valued at about $500, was not sold to the woman, the Star Tribune reported.

Bloomington is about 10 miles south of Minneapolis.

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