Woman uses duffle bag to steal ram, but evidence sticks to her back, MN cops say
A Minnesota woman was arrested after police say she committed “a crime city dwellers don’t often have to talk about.”
The 42-year-old woman was charged with livestock rustling, Chief Booker T. Hodges of Bloomington Police Department said in an Oct. 24 news conference.
Police officers responded Oct. 9 around 6:45 p.m. to a farm in Bloomington “on a report of a man and woman walking a dog and what appeared to be a sheep,” Hodges said.
The woman told officers she purchased the ram, but Hodges said that “turned out not to be true.”
Police learned the woman dragged the ram away from the farm using the strap of a duffle bag, nearly choking it, Hodges said.
Video shared during the conference of the interaction shows the woman’s back covered with burs.
Hodges said they were “the same burs that are next to the farm.”
A farm employee confirmed with police that the ram, valued at about $500, was not sold to the woman, the Star Tribune reported.
Bloomington is about a 10-mile dive south from Minneapolis.
