{"id":50423,"date":"2023-05-15T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50423"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:24:18","slug":"a-good-news-story-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50423","title":{"rendered":"A Good News Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/herd-cows-aid-north-carolina-police-pursuit-leading-them-directly-suspect?fbclid=IwAR0T3Bs_8-ZymRYloZLFJOC7kQv5toyZhlFNT2ol69h3sttKQWL-tZQ2Q1k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> posted an article about an unusual capture of a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>North Carolina<\/strong><\/a><strong> police officers made an arrest with the help of a herd of cows who were happy to narc on the suspect hiding in their pasture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Town of Boone Police Department said the suspect, later identified as Joshua Minton, 34, fled from officers during a traffic stop on Tuesday and led the officers and Watauga County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies on a pursuit. He abandoned his vehicle in the Deep Gap area and ran into an undeveloped area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Because of the suspect&#8217;s &#8220;fast and reckless driving,&#8221; officers were not immediately close enough to see where he ran to, according to police.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Officers began searching the area for the man and received some unexpected assistance from cows willing to reveal the suspect&#8217;s whereabouts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;Apparently cows do not want suspected criminals loitering in their pasture and quickly assisted our officers by leading them directly to where the suspect was hiding,&#8221; police said in a press release. &#8220;The cows communicated with the officers as best they could and finally just had the officers follow them to the suspect\u2019s location.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Minton was apprehended and charged with one count of felony fleeing and eluding arrest with a motor vehicle, driving with a license revoked, and disorderly conduct. He received a $20,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court on June 28, in Watauga County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I guess cows don&#8217;t like people hiding in their pasture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Fox News posted an article about an unusual capture of a criminal. The article reports: North Carolina police officers made an arrest with the help of a herd of cows who were happy to narc on the suspect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16566,16567,12415,2523],"class_list":["post-50423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boone-north-carolina","tag-boone-police-department","tag-cows","tag-fox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50431,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423\/revisions\/50431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}