OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska authorities are searching for a man charged in an arrest warrant with an attack on his ex-girlfriend last month.

Police are searching for 35-year-old Nicholas Moss. Moss is charged with false imprisonment, sexual assault and violating a protection order.

Court documents say Moss’ ex-girlfriend found her Council Bluffs, Iowa, home broken into and her dog missing. She said Moss soon called her and told her he would kill the dog if she didn’t meet him. Sarpy County Sheriff’s investigators say Moss sexually assaulted her at a Bellevue motel before forcing her into his truck. She was able to escape when he stopped at an intersection.

Moss faces up to 55 years if he’s found and convicted of the charges.

ST. EDWARD, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says two people are dead and a young girl injured following the head-on crash of a car and a pickup on state Highway 39 in Platte County.

The crash happened around 1 a.m. Saturday just southeast of St. Edward.

The crash killed 40-year-old Maggie Turpitt, of Genoa, and 24-year-old Daniel Sanchez, of Cedar Rapids.

The patrol says Sanchez was driving the car and overcorrected after entering a ditch. The car crossed the center line and collided head-on with the pickup driven by Turpitt.

The patrol says a young girl in Turpitt’s vehicle was taken to a hospital. Her condition was unavailable Saturday morning.

Sanchez and Turpitt were pronounced dead at the scene.

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FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) — A former Richardson County Sheriff’s deputy who accidentally shot himself last year and then lied about now faces charges of first-degree sexual assault and child abuse.

26-year-old Joshua Nincehelser has been charged with first-degree sexual assault and child abuse. Authorities say he sexually assaulted a girl younger than 12 earlier this year.

In January, Nincehelser was sentenced to three years of probation and 180 days of community service for lying when he said someone he had pulled over shot him on a rural road near Humboldt in June 2014.

He later admitted he had accidentally shot himself, then fired several shots into his cruiser to make his story look real.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa are prosecuting three Omaha residents they suspect of cattle rustling.

Ervin John Jacob, James Michael Brunzo and Amy Louise Springer are accused of slipping into feedlots at night and hauling off steers and cows to sell at sale barns and livestock auctions.

The three are charged with cattle thefts in Cass County, Iowa, and Cuming County, Nebraska. The 57-year-old Jacob and 42-year-old Springer also face charges in Nebraska’s York County.

Jacob and Springer have already pleaded guilty in some of the cases but face additional charges. The 49-year-old Brunzo is charged with theft in Cuming County and Iowa’s Cass County.