Four frat boys are arrested after leaving a dead longhorn on the front law of another fraternity house even as their brothers begged them not to carry out the ‘prank’

Four fraternity members have been arrested in the case involving a dead longhorn that was placed outside a rival fraternity house last month.

Oklahoma State University students Bennett Fady, Luke Ackerley, Brody Shelby and Andrew King were all arrested Wednesday, following a more than month-long investigation by college city police.

All are charged with unlawful removal/disposal of a carcass — a crime that does not warrant jail time — and were released on their own recognizance after pleading not guilty, records show.

The strange saga began on December 1, the eve of the Big 12 championship game.

Unsurprisingly, OSU would play the Texas Longhorns, causing Fady, Ackerley, Shelby and King to cut the belly of the particular beef, carve a message into the carcass and attach it to the porch of the other fraternity’s house , the police said.

“There was a significant collective lack of cooperation from the Alpha Gamma Rho organization,” police noted in an affidavit, which revealed that some brothers from the community’s own fraternity opposed the disturbing display.

But first, the officers described how they tracked down the longhorn’s owner – after members of the FarmHouse association woke up the morning before the game to find the animal tied to a large concrete pillar on their porch.

The bull was not only eviscerated, but also branded with the message ‘F**k FH.’

After speaking with the farmer, police learned that he was one of the uncles of the Alpha Gamma Rho boys, and that a large party had taken place on the property the night before.

Police in Stillwater then spoke with fraternity members, leading them to believe the abandoned animal was the result of an ongoing prank war between the groups, both of which are recognized by the school.

Court documents show how police in the university city came to that conclusion after conversations with members of the student association – but also with management and an advisor.

From conversations with the latter, police learned that several members of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity were allegedly responsible for the incident, before being reluctantly confronted when they tried to find out who was involved.

The advisor and senior members, police wrote, refused to hold the members accountable, hampering their investigation.

However, investigators eventually took a break when they were able to obtain surveillance video from the fraternity due to a search warrant, which included a blank scene during the time frame in which the incident allegedly occurred.

In another surveillance video taken near the crime scene, the officer saw three people get out of a white Ford truck to dump the longhorn on the front lawn of the FarmHouse, while another remained in the driver’s seat.

That truck, police learned, belonged to another member who they say was briefly approached in jest by the handcuffed four.

He told police how the group – specifically Fady – had asked him to let them use the truck and its trailer to retrieve the cow, whose organs were eventually exposed by his captors.

The unnamed Alpha Gamma Rho member eventually agreed and confirmed to police that he allowed Fady to use his truck.

Police said the suspects hid the truck and its connection to the case by not immediately returning it to its owner after committing the crime, but parking it on the east side of the farm where the cow was picked up.

The unidentified student was told where the truck was located and was eventually driven to the owner’s home in the middle of the night, at the “suggestion of the student association, to avoid detection,” police wrote.

The revelations in the affidavit don’t stop there: One segment reveals how Fady, portrayed as the mastermind, openly discussed the plan to drop the dead longhorn with other members, some of whom urged him not to carry it out.

It was not immediately clear who had relayed these claims, with police explicitly citing the lack of cooperation from Alpha Gamma Rho members.

They did not say whether the information came from the fraternity members who spoke out against the prank, citing the ongoing investigation.

Another police finding was that the four suspects did not actually kill the animal used in the incident.

The cow, police wrote, died of disease 36 hours before being branded and was not killed specifically to be left on the FarmHouse lawn.

Stillwater police came to that conclusion after a necropsy report, and not after a conversation with the farmer.

Neighbors, meanwhile, told investigators that they typically saw three longhorns on a currently unidentified man’s property, but after the prank only two remained.

After the first incident, FarmHouse fraternity leadership issued a statement insisting that none of its members were involved.

They added that they called police as soon as they found the slaughtered cattle, bringing the campus to a standstill before the Big 12 Game.

However, the Longhorns would ultimately secure the last laugh – pulling off a blowout over OSU’s Buckeyes by a score of 49 to 21.

Having not yet responded to the arrests, OSU has already issued the following statement: “The State of Oklahoma expects all students to adhere to the University’s Code of Conduct.

“Appropriate action will be taken based on the outcome of an ongoing internal investigation.”

DailyMail.com has contacted the council for comment.