Overview

• Police identified the suspect as E. E.R., 46, and intercepted him in Barrio Narciso Vega while he carried a shoulder cut in a burlap bag for sale.
• Rural and Ecological officers seized the meat and a knife, and testing confirmed the product was horse.
• An electronic identifier linked the animal to I. M., who had reported the horse stolen days earlier.
• Investigators located the rest of the carcass at a nearby property, missing the same shoulder the suspect was offering.
• A prosecutor ordered immediate detention on abigeato charges, police urged producers to keep animal IDs current, and reports say the meat was at times pitched as beef.