AUBURN, Neb. (AP) — A southeast Nebraska judge has sentenced a former director of a nonprofit organization to jail and probation for stealing from the organization.

Nemaha County Judge Curtis Maschman gave Dawn Parriott 21 days in jail and 24 months of probation at her sentencing Tuesday in Auburn. The 46-year-old Peru resident had pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor theft counts.

Parriott also was ordered to make restitution.

A state audit showed documentation may have been falsified for nearly $8,900 in travel reimbursements for Parriott as director of Project Response. The Auburn-based agency’s mission: help the homeless and victims of sexual and domestic abuse.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two Lincoln police officers investigated for steroids say in their federal civil rights lawsuit that their fellow officers subjected them to unlawful policing.

Officers Tim Cronin and Josh Fullerton weren’t charged or punished in the criminal and internal investigations that started in the fall of 2015.

Attorney Douglas Philips alleged in the lawsuit filed Monday that the officers were subjected to unlawful arrest and illegally denied access to their attorney. He also said their property was unlawfully searched.

The lawsuit names current narcotics unit Capt. Chris Peterson, former Chief Jim Peschong, Assistant Chief Brian Jackson, several officers and the department’s lawyer as defendants in the case.

Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister says department officials are evaluating the officers’ claims and working with the city attorney’s office to review previously completed internal investigations.

DENVER (AP) — Dozens of Coloradans are accused of running a marijuana trafficking ring in which they pretended to be growing weed for sick people but illegally shipped the drug out of state.

A Denver grand jury has indicted 62 people and 12 businesses in case that involved federal and state agents executing nearly 150 search warrants in 33 homes and 18 warehouses in the Denver area.

The indictment was returned June 9 and announced Wednesday by state Attorney General Cynthia Coffman.

Coffman says it is the largest illegal marijuana operation since Colorado legalized the drug. She says that “the black market for marijuana … continues to flourish.”

Coffman says that the enterprise was producing more than 100 pounds a month of illegal pot for shipment to Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, Ohio and Oklahoma.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 60-year-old Omaha man has been sentenced to 40 to 50 years in prison for causing a crash last year that killed a motorcyclist.

Kevin Malone was sentenced Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. He was convicted in May of felony motor vehicle homicide, manslaughter, leaving the scene of a crash and driving without an ignition interlock device.

Police says Malone was drunk when his car crashed into a motorcycle driven by 43-year-old Justin Hart of Omaha on Aug. 31. Hart died at an Omaha hospital.

Police say Malone drove from the crash scene. Numerous witnesses provided police with a description of the vehicle and driver.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Plattsmouth man has been sentenced to five years of supervised release for defrauding banks.

Mark Tincher also was fined $50,000 at his sentencing Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha and told to pay more than $833,000 in restitution. He pleaded guilty in March to fraud.

Prosecutors say that between April 2010 and June 2010, Tincher manipulated checks between four banks at which he maintained accounts. His action, called check kiting, artificially inflated the balances.

At one time Tincher ran Tincher Chevrolet Oldsmobile in Plattsmouth. It closed in July 2011.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska inmate has been given more time to serve because he assaulted a prison guard.

Brendan Horner was given eight to 12 years at his sentencing Monday in Lincoln. He’d pleaded no contest.

Authorities say Horner grabbed the guard March 26 last year at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln when the guard entered Horner’s cell to look for marijuana the guard smelled. Prosecutors say Horner threw the guard to the floor and punched the guard several times before other guards intervened.

Horner’s been serving time for shooting a man during a June 2012 road rage incident in Lincoln.