Crime & Safety
Sugar Land Cop Arrested for Cattle Rustling
A Sugar Land police officer was arrested for stealing cattle and ranching equipment.
SUGAR LAND, TX — An officer with the Sugar Land Police Department was arrested and charged with conspiring to rustle cattle.
Technically William Allen has been charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, a first-degree felony.
Allen allegedly conspired with three other men — Myles Wallace, Justin Sessums and Leon Washington Jr. — to steal construction equipment, cattle trailers, lawn mowers, pickup trucks and cattle.
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The value of all the items stolen totaled about $150,000.
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