Cameras captured two men who are accused of stealing cattle from a rancher in Auburndale, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reports.

Yoinel DeVera-Gutierrez, 29 of 588 E. 55th St., Hialeah, and Andres Trujillo, 37, of 914 E. Paris St., Tampa, were charged with grand theft of livestock and dealing in stolen property. Additional charges are expected, the sheriff’s office said.

On Dec. 12, Ed Davis reported a number of Hereford cattle were missing from his pasture near Polk City.

Seven days later Sgt. Tim Glover forwarded a red light camera violation at U.S. 27 and Holly Hill Road in Haines City to agriculture deputies. It showed a white 1989 Dodge pickup truck pulling a Gooseneck livestock trailer and the tag was registered Trujillo. The trailer was carrying cattle with Hereford breed markings. Trujillo was traveling toward the southern livestock markets.

About the same time, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office was investigating a cattle theft with the same description of the suspect truck and trailer. Polk detectives contacted the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office and learned a second suspect, DeVera-Gutierrez, sold stolen cattle related to a Pasco investigation.

Detectives then contacted the Okeechobee Livestock Market Auction and retrieved video that showed seven cows sold at auction Dec. 12 under the name Yoinel DeVera for $3,798.21, the sheriff’s office reports. Davis saw the video and identified the cattle, according to the report. Both suspects were identified in a bank surveillance video cashing the check, investigators said.

Trujillo, who was at the Hillsborough Parole Office, was charged Jan. 31
with the Polk County thefts. On Feb. 1, DeVera-Gutierrez was arrested in
Columbia County.