TSCRA Special Rangers Hal Dumas and Toney Hurley spent 2 long days working with dilapidated pens in the cold mud and
pouring rain, gathering and loading 14 sto- len heifers to return to the victim in Texas.
same prison unit in Arkansas. Guthrey then confessed that he had stolen the 14 branded heifers in Robertson County after all, and had hauled them to Boyd’s grand- father’s ranch in Camden, Ark., where they remained.
Recovery of the branded cattle While Special Rangers Hand and Wills continued
driving the suspect to more locations, solving more theft cases, Dumas and Hurley headed straight to Ar- kansas to look for the branded heifers. They pulled into Camden, Ark., in the middle of
the night, checked into a hotel room and waited for morning to meet with the Ouachita County Sheriff. As daylight broke, offi cers located Boyd’s grandfather’s ranch, where they could see cattle in the pasture. Sure enough, the 14 branded heifers stood among them. After the Ouachita County Sheriff captain obtained
consent from Boyd’s grandfather to recover the cattle, Dumas and Hurley got to work retrieving the heifers. They spent 2 long days working with dilapidated pens in the cold mud and pouring rain, gathering and load- ing them up to return to the victim in Texas.
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The accomplice A few days later, still working to unravel the case,
Hand got a warrant to arrest Boyd on one of the thefts in Panola County, and in turn, called in Special Ranger Brent Mast. “I met Hand in Carthage, got Guthrey out of jail and drove him to Leon County, where he told us he and Boyd had stolen 2 head in my county and taken them to Arkansas,” Mast says. Mast and Hurley then made the trip to Camden,
Ark., to place him under arrest. Once they arrived and made contact with the Ouachita County Sheriff’s Offi ce, they located the home where Levi Boyd lived. “After Hurley negotiated a great deal with Boyd’s
girlfriend, who had at fi rst said he wasn’t there, Boyd surrendered in the trailer house on the warrant,” Mast says, “We weren’t going to give up that easily and drive all the way back to Texas.” When Mast and Hurley fi rst interviewed Boyd in
the Ouachita County jail, he agreed to cooperate, but by the next morning he had decided to keep quiet. “Boyd’s demeanor showed he had a very strong distrust of the police,” Mast said. “I believe that, in his mind,
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