Video: Minn. Police. Nab “Ram Rustler” thanks to the barbs on her back

By Lauren Liebhaber

Source Merced Sun-Star (Merced, CA)

A Minnesota woman was arrested after police said she committed “a crime that city dwellers often don’t have to talk about.”

A 42-year-old woman has been charged with rustling farm animals, Chief Booker T. Hodges of the Bloomington Police Department said at an Oct. 24 news conference.

Police officers responded to a farm in Bloomington on Oct. 9 around 6:45 p.m. “for 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 had dragged the sheep off the farm using the strap of her duffel bag, nearly strangling it, Hodges said.

The video shared during the interaction conference shows the woman’s back covered with burrs.

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

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

Bloomington is approximately 16 miles south of Minneapolis.

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