77 head of cattle rustled near Benque

Attention butcher shops everywhere…there’s a herd of cattle missing from the Cayo District, and some of it may very well turn up at your door. According to police, between January first and seventh, approximately seventy-seven head of cattle disappeared from the Negroman Farm, located off the Western Highway between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo. With the price of beef on the hoof at attractive levels, estimates as to the value of the haul are around seventy-seven thousand dollars. News 5 understands that the brand of Negroman, which would appear on each animal, is a U with an X in the middle. Anyone with information about this case is asked to please contact the Benque Viejo police.