So. Um. This is a thing that happened in Kentucky.
According to the arrest warrant deputies served on Rodney Brown, 25, the crime started with the theft of 25 roosters, a goat, some rooster pens, and some other equipment used to keep those roosters.
Police say Brown took them from the victim’s home December 21. They arrested him yesterday and charged him with theft by unlawful taking.
Brown’s arrest warrant says after he stole those animals and items he contacted the victim. The citation says Brown “offered to give the items back if he would consent to sex with him.”
He also told the victim that he’d beat him up if he went to the police, say the police he went to. Great job.
The story says that all of the requesting and threatening was done via text message, which has me wondering if Brown and his target are somehow known to each other.
Brown, who has since bonded out of jail, was charged with promoting prostitution and third degree terroristic threatening.