Horse theft case adjourned to Sept. 17

Charges against a Stirling area farmer accused of stealing two horses, then selling them to a processing facility near Fort Macleod, were back in Lethbridge provincial court Thursday.

However, the case against Wayne Bernard Jubb was simply adjourned until later in the month when the assigned Crown prosecutor is expected to be in court. Lethbridge lawyer Art Larson told court the prosecutor had been away for some time but will be able to address the matter Sept. 17.

Jubb, who was not in court Thursday, is charged with cattle theft, trafficking stolen property and uttering forged documents.

On April 28, Raymond RCMP received a report that two horses being boarded at a Stirling-area farm had been sold without the owner’s consent. The victim reported that she had been boarding the horses there for five years, but on April 9 was contacted by a relative of the farm owner who told her that the owner had passed away and she would have to relocate the horses by the end of the month.

The woman who owned the horses secured a new boarding facility, but when her daughter arrived at the farm to pick up the animals, a man told her he had sold them.

Raymond RCMP were notified and began an investigation with help from the Southern Alberta RCMP Livestock Investigator. They discovered the horses had been sold to a Fort Macleod processing facility where a man had falsified a livestock manifest and Equine Information Document indicating he was the lawful owner of the horses.

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