
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A Fremont woman has been charged with helping a man who’s accused of providing alcohol to the woman’s teenage brother, who died after being found outdoors in bone-chilling cold last fall.
The Fremont Police Department says 19-year-old Yesenia (yeh-SEHN’-yuh) Valdez is charged with a felony: aiding and abetting the procurement of alcohol to a minor. Online court records don’t list an attorney who could be contacted to comment on her behalf.
Police say Valdez helped 21-year-old Dakota McDonald provide alcohol to Valdez’s 16-year-old brother, Jaime (HEYE’-may) Valdez. Jaime Valdez was found the morning of Nov. 16, when, according to the National Weather Service, Fremont’s temperature was 2 degrees, with a wind child of minus 16. Police say the boy died later that day of hypothermia associated with acute ethanol intoxication.