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Lincoln Man Gets Prison Sentence for Dragging Officers

Shahbaz Mohammad
Shahbaz Mohammad

(AP) — A 19-year-old Lincoln man was sentenced to 11 to 22 years in prison after being convicted of dragging two Lincoln police officers who clung to his car as they tried to arrest him.

Shahbaz Mohammad was sentenced Wednesday. He had pleaded no contest in March to second-degree assault on an officer and operating a motor vehicle to avoid arrest.

The incident with police occurred Oct. 14 during a traffic stop. Mohammad gave another man’s name to police, and when officers asked him to get out of the car he drove off.

He dragged two officers, one for about 130 feet and the other for 10 blocks.

The car ran over one officer’s knee, and he couldn’t resume full duty for a month.

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