HUGO, Colo. – The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is offering a hefty reward to find the person(s) responsible for shooting and killing cattle north of Hugo.
“They leave them to lie and rot out in the pastures, and the moral compass of whoever this is obviously is flawed,” said Capt. Michael Yowell with the Lincoln Couny Sheriff’s Office.
In a posting on its Facebook page, the sheriff’s department offered a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest.
The most recent shooting happened on July 30, but investigators say they’ve been tracking killings of livestock since 2013. A total of five cattle and seven antelope have been killed.
Ben Orrell, a rancher who lives just out of Hugo was one of the first to lose cattle.
“I got a call that said I got a dead cow,” said Orrell. “Went out there and found there were in fact two dead cows.”
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