WOLF POINT, Mont. (AP) -- A rare case of cattle rustling ended in the conviction of a Wolf Point man on eight counts of felony theft, one for each neighboring rancher whose cattle he stole.
Richard D. Holen was convicted of stealing 39 head of cattle.
Roosevelt County Attorney Ryan Rusche (ROO'-shee) said Tuesday that his research went back to the early 1900s before he found a Montana rustling case of that scale.
Holen was convicted last week after a three-day trial. He's in custody awaiting sentencing.
Rusche says that last September, a Fort Peck tribal game warden spotted Holen moving cattle into some brush along the Missouri River bottom.
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Investigators eventually found 33 cows, calves, bulls and heifers that didn't belong to Holen among his herd, and another six stolen cows and calves that he sold to someone else.
