14 February 2025

Man arrested in Holbrook after allegedly neglecting cattle on travelling stock reserve

| Shri Gayathirie Rajen
Rural Crime Prevention Team and Local Land Services officers conducted an operation on a travelling stock reserve at Jingellic

Rural Crime Prevention Team and Local Land Services officers conducted an operation on a travelling stock reserve at Jingellic. Photo: NSW Police.

A man has been charged with a number of livestock offences in the Riverina after nine cattle were allegedly found suffering from an untreated eye condition.

At about 9 am on Thursday 30 January, officers attached to the Rural Crime Prevention Team with assistance from Local Land Services officers conducted an operation on a travelling stock reserve at Jingellic, about 44 km southwest of Tumbarumba.

Some 31 cattle were allegedly found at the property, with nine cattle allegedly suffering from an untreated eye condition.

Police will allege a request was made to the owner of the cattle to move his stock, after his travelling stock reserve permit had allegedly expired.

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The cattle were impounded by the Local Land Services.

About 2:45 pm Monday (10 February), a 51-year-old man was arrested at a property in Holbrook and taken to Albury Police Station.

He has been charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage etc by deception, leaving an additional animal unattended in a public place, leaving a single animal unattended in a public place, being in charge of an animal while failing to exercise supervision, hindering or resisting a police officer in the execution of duty and stalking/intimidation.

He was refused bail and appeared before Albury local Court on Tuesday (11 February).

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