How I Became a Cattle Prosecutor

摘要

Thievin'cows is still big business in Texas. Here's how a livestock Ponzi scheme in Williamson County was dismantled and the brains of the operation brought to justice. When I came to Williamson County from Dallas in February 2008,1 knew that things were going to slow down. As I reviewed my new docket, one case stood out above all the rest. There in the back of my file drawer, where it had been clearly sent to die, was the thick, tattered, three-year-old case against Monte Sharp, who had been indicted for the first-degree felony offense of ...theft of cattle. So began my journey on the road to becoming the cattle prosecutor.