BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) – A 22-year-old Bellevue woman has been arrested, accused of assaulting an officer who stopped to check on her.
A Bellevue Police Department news release says the incident occurred a little before 7 p.m. Monday. The department says the officer had noticed a woman who appeared to be hitchhiking although she wasn’t wearing any shoes and was covered in mud.
The department says the woman soon began assaulting the officer. Two passers-by came to the officer’s aid and helped control the woman until other officers arrived.
The officer was treated for minor injuries. Police say the woman apparently wasn’t injured.
She was identified as Sarah Owens.
Owens remains in Sarpy County custody. Her attorney in an unrelated case, Michael Schirber, said Tuesday that he knew nothing about the new allegation.