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The Grundy Co. Sheriff's department is seeking this person of interest |
While normally a facility for bidding on livestock and farm equipment, the sale barn on Friday January 22 allegedly became the scene of a crime. As the crowd was beginning to make their bids on a sturdy one-ton Hereford bull, one man in the crowd began making motions towards a woman down on the second row.
"He was yelling about how fine this woman was, man," said Will Royer, a buyer from out past the Wonder Cave. "I thought we couldn't sexually harass women in 2025, but anyway... he kept pointing her out and saying she was an 8 or 9 or 10 and he wanted to buy her or maybe she bought him; it was confusing."
Auctioneer Dwight Smith said he told the man to stop disrupting business, but he just kept at it. "We didn't have nothing to do with whatever went down, I was just going a mile a minute trying to sell some breeding stock of the bovine sort and he was pestering this pretty lady." said Smith.
Details are sketchy about what happened next, but what is known is that the gentleman left with the woman, who was described as a 30-something caucasian woman in a black dress with blonde hair and blue eyes. The man was said to be a middle-aged caucasian around 6 feet tall, wearing a blue and black flannel. A grainy photo was provided and authorities have said to call any Grundy Co. officials if you recognize the man.
"We're not even sure anything illegal happened, or if money was exchanged," said deputy Sheriff Richard Fagan. "All we know is that a sketchy hookup happened, and we need to know if the sale barn is in the habit of doing a different kind of load out."
At press time, the sale barn's plans for an auction next Saturday were proceeding with caution.