An Oklahoma judge has ruled that the case against a woman accused of stealing five horses belonging to the rodeo team at Southern Arkansas University (SAU) last year will go forward.

On Nov. 2, five Quarter Horses belonging to student members of the school’s collegiate rodeo team were taken from the Mulerider Stables at the university’s Magnolia, Ark., campus. A horse trailer and a variety of equestrian equipment also taken from the stables were recovered shortly after the incident. Four of the missing horses and the remains of the fifth horse were later recovered in McCurtain County, Okla.

Jaci Rae Jackson of McCurtain County, Okla., who was an SAU student and a rodeo team member at the time of the incident, was arrested and charged with six counts felony theft of property in Arkansas. Jackson pleaded not guilty to those Arkansas charges. Jackson was also charged in Oklahoma with three felonies connected to the SAU thefts including bringing stolen property into the state, knowingly concealing stolen property, and cruelty to animals.

McCurtain County District Attorney Mark Matloff said that on May 14 Jackson appeared in McCurtain County Court for a preliminary hearing on the charges against her there