Photo: Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assn. Special Rangers Scott Williamson and Marvin Wills along with Carl Wade Curry. Credit: Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assn.
Carl Wade Curry of Athens, Texas, was sentenced to 99 years for cattle rustling. Betsy Blaney for the Associated Press in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. And here’s a 2010 story about Curry’s arrest from the North Texas e-News.
ps. Curry acted as his own lawyer.
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Athens is about 50 miles from where my parents live. Raising cattle is very hard right now because of lack of rain. Grass is dying and lakes are drying up, so many people are having to sell off their herds. There probably won’t be too many cattle ranchers next year if this drought persists.
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