WEDNESDAY,JUNE 13, 2018 Inside: 75¢ Best of Clovis and Best of Portales readers’ survey ballots. — Page 6-7A Vol. 90 ◆ No. 63 SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com YOUNG BUILDERS Texas men face felony theft charges ❏ Pair accused of sick cattle valued at $1,700 each. Baird at that time also conspiring to steal identified Tapia as a co-con- spirator, said Bohannon, who bovine antibiotics. explained that Draxxin is “one of the most expensive By David Grieder antibiotics on the market” STAFF WRITER and was likely intended for
[email protected] the black market of stolen MULESHOE — Two goods. Texas men face felony theft TSCRA’s director of pub- charges in Muleshoe, lic affairs said the associa- accused of conspiring to tion was founded in 1877 to steal more than $10,000 in the purpose of “protecting bovine antibiotics. the men and women who John Russell Baird, 44, of raise our nation’s beef sup- Amarillo and Israel Tapia, ply,” and stays busy to this 41, of Muleshoe, were day with such issues, investi- indicted June 6 by a Bailey gating 720 cases just last County grand jury and face year. up to two years in prison and “(Draxxin) is not an over- $10,000 in fines, according ly common item that is to a news release Tuesday stolen, but we do regularly from the Texas and see cases where cattle ranch- Southwestern Cattle Raisers ers or others in the cattle Association. business are taken advantage TSCRA Special Ranger of by employees or trusted Dean Bohannon said the business associates,” said investigation began in mid- Jeremy Fuchs.