Calves rustled

It could have taken a regular-sized cattle trailer to make off with 14 calves in a field two miles east of Peabody, Undersheriff Larry Starkey said. The calves were reported stolen between Sept. 27 and 5:30 p.m. Oct. 10 from a pasture at the northwest corner of 50th and Quail Creek Rds.

Owner Jarrod D. Gaines of rural Newton valued the 400 to 500-pound calves at $19,120. It had been a few days since the cattle were checked on, so it’s unclear what day they were taken, Starkey said.

“It’s kind of an isolated area out there,” he said.