Jaci Jackson nods to charges over Arkansas Five
Jaci Rae Jackson has pleaded guilty to the concluding charges she faces inwards connecter alongside the high-profile theft of 5 rodeo horses belonging to members of the Southern Arkansas University rodeo team.
The horses were stolen early on inwards Nov 2011 from the university’s Mulerider Stables inwards Magnolia, every bit purpose of a excogitation to sell the valuable animals. They became known every bit the Arkansas Five.
Four of the animals were recovered inwards neighboring Oklahoma.
One was killed every bit regime closed inwards on the grouping behind the thefts, every bit it became apparent the animals would chop-chop endure recognized. The illustration was attracting large headlines.
Jackson, a one-time pupil at Southern Arkansas University, had faced a serial of charges inwards both Arkansas as well as Oklahoma every bit the stolen horses were transported over the country line.
Court records demo Jackson, 20, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, has agreed to plead guilty to charges of bringing stolen holding into the state, knowingly concealing stolen holding as well as cruelty to animals.
She volition endure sentenced past times a gauge inwards McCurtain County on September 9.
Jackson’s mother, Wendie Nicole Cox, received a 60-year jail judgement inwards March afterward a jury convicted her of theft inwards the case.
In April, Jackson nodded to half-dozen counts of conspiracy to commit theft of holding inwards Arkansas. She had originally been charged alongside half-dozen counts of felony theft.
She is expected to endure sentenced inwards Magnolia inwards October.
Aside from Cox, 2 others are too serving prison theatre sentences over the theft.
William “Billy” Hamilton, a friend of Cox, admitted half-dozen theft counts as well as was sentenced to xxx years inwards jail.
George Berrish III admitted ane theft count as well as was sentenced to 10 years inwards jail.
Evidence emerged that the horses were stolen every bit purpose of a excogitation to sell them for profit. They were stolen overnight inwards Nov 2011, along alongside a Equus caballus trailer used to carry them as well as to a greater extent than or less items of tack.
They were taken into Oklahoma, simply the excogitation fell apart when the conspirators realized that the sale of the horses without beingness detected would endure difficult.
Authorities were closing inwards as well as iv of the horses were ultimately found, hungry as well as dehydrated, tied to trees non far from Cox’s home.
The 5th horse, Credit Card, was shot as well as dismembered for disposal because they felt he was to a greater extent than readily identifiable than the other horses.
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