Wendi Cox, the mother of a woman accused of stealing horses from the Southern Arkansas University (SAU) stables, has been found guilty for her role in the thefts and has been sentenced to serve 60 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

In November 2011, five SAU rodeo team Quarter Horses were taken from the Mulerider Stables at the university’s Magnolia, Ark., campus. Four of the missing horses and the mutilated remains of the fifth horse were later recovered in McCurtain County, Okla. In December 2011, Arkansas State Police arrested Jaci Jackson and charged her with six counts felony theft of property in Arkansas, and three felony charges in Oklahoma in connection with the thefts. Jackson has pleaded not guilty to the Arkansas felony charges.

In June 2012, Cox, Jackson’s mother, surrendered to McCurtain County law enforcement authorities, who charged her with cruelty to animals and knowingly concealing stolen property in connection with the death of the fifth horse, a 15-year-old sorrel gelding named Credit Card. That case remains pending.

In July 2012, law enforcement authorities in Columbia County, Ark., also charged Cox with four counts of theft of property over $5,000 and two counts of theft of property over $25,000 in connection with the thefts