A 27-year-old North Platte man is in jail after authorities say he assaulted a police officer.

On October 11, at around 12:07 a.m., North Platte police responded to the report of someone trying to break into a residence in the 1300 block of West 17th Street.

An officer arrived at the scene and made contact with 27-year-old Walterio Seabrooks.

According to Officer Beth Kerr, after the officer made contact with Seabrooks a struggle ensued. During the struggle, Kerr says Seabrooks attempted to take the officers firearm from the holster numerous times and physically assaulted the officer in the process.

Eventually, Seabrooks was subdued and taken into custody.

Seabrooks and 23-year-old Officer Alexander Parker were both injured in the scuffle.

Officer Parker was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and remains hospitalized for further evaluation.

Seabrooks was transported to the Lincoln County Detention Center and charged with attempted 2nd-degree murder, a Class 1C felony, resisting arrest, and criminal trespassing, all misdemeanors.

As Seabrooks was being booked into jail, Kerr says officers located marijuana on his person. As a result, he was also charged with possession of marijuana, an infraction.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a driver killed in a collision in the Nebraska Panhandle.

The Nebraska State Patrol says 82-year-old Marlyn Eppenbach, of Morrill, died after Tuesday’s collision on U.S. Highway 26 just northwest of Scottsbluff.

The patrol says Eppenbach failed to yield the right of way when she entered the highway from a county road. Her car was struck by a vehicle driven by 47-year-old Michael Wagoner, of Gering. He was hospitalized.

KIMBALL, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve arrested a woman who used a BB gun to shoot her mother at a western Nebraska motel.

Kimball County Court records say 37-year-old Shirrin Sharifpour is charged with evidence tampering, two counts of assault and one of attempted murder. Her attorney declined to comment Wednesday.

Police say Sharifpour’s mother told officers that she and her daughter were at the motel Oct. 3 and were talking when her daughter went outside. Margaret Sharifpour reported that her daughter then came back inside the room, stood between the two beds, said something and then shot her twice in the back of her head and once in her right eye.

Police say officers recovered a BB handgun after the younger woman told them where she’d hidden it.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has been convicted of attacking an employee at the state prison intake center for male prisoners.

25-year-old Justin Gardner was found guilty Tuesday of assault. His sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 19.

Authorities say Gardner went to a prison lieutenant’s office at the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center in Lincoln on Nov 17, insisting that he’d finished his sentence and should be released. The incident ended soon after Gardner got angry and punched the lieutenant in the face.

A 14-year-old North Platte girl who wandered away from her home last night has been found safe.

On 10-10-18 at 745 pm, an officer was flagged down by a citizen in the 1500 block of East 12th St who advised that they were unable to locate their 14-year-old daughter.

They reported that Maddie Fletcher was sitting on the porch and then when they went to check on her, she was gone. Maddie has autism.

Media outlets were notified and a post put on Facebook once Maddie was not located in the immediate area in order to notify the public. At 240 am, Maddie was located walking around in the area of 16th and Custer by her parents and taken home safely.

MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) – Authorities have released the names of two people killed when the car they were in rammed into a semitrailer in southwest Nebraska.

The collision occurred around 10:45 a.m. Tuesday on U.S. Highway 83, about 9 miles (15 kilometers) north of McCook. The Nebraska State Patrol says the northbound car crossed the center line and hit the oncoming semi.

The patrol identified the car driver as 72-year-old William Shanahan, who lived in Maywood, and his passenger as 64-year-old Georgia Connor, who lived in Stratton.

The patrol says the truck driver wasn’t injured. He’s been identified as 46-year-old Brian Els, of Benkelman.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Two people caught hauling marijuana through Nebraska have been imprisoned.

Buffalo County District Court records say 49-year-old Charlie Red, of Sedalia, Colorado, and 30-year-old Damaisy De La Caridad Rodriguez, of Miami, Florida, were sentenced Friday. Both had pleaded no contest to felony possession for sale. Red was given five to 10 years and Caridad Rodriguez was given one to three years.

Authorities say a motorist saw and then picked up a package that fell from a flatbed trailer being pulled by a pickup truck on Interstate 80 on Jan. 19.

The pickup soon stopped on the interstate shoulder, and Red and Caridad Rodriguez eventually were met by a Nebraska state trooper. The trooper then discovered a false compartment on the bottom of the trailer.

The marijuana found totaled around 122 pounds (55 kilograms), with an estimated street value of $366,000.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State College System has entered a contract with the next system chancellor.

The system said in a news release Tuesday that Paul Turman will begin his Lincoln work on Jan. 2 at a yearly salary of $270,000. He was unanimously approved by system trustees last week.

Turman is system vice president for academic affairs for the South Dakota Board of Regents. He’ll be replacing Chancellor Stan Carpenter, who is retiring after 18 years of service to the Nebraska system, which has campuses in Chadron, Peru and Wayne.

The other three finalists were state Sen. John Kuehn, a veterinarian who represents District 38 in the Nebraska Legislature; Thomas Chesney, president of Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, Texas; and Rusty Monhollon, who is assistant commissioner for academic affairs, Missouri Department of Higher Education.

Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have seized numerous drugs and arrested five people during three traffic stops on Interstate 80 from Saturday to Monday.

On Saturday, October 6, at approximately 1:50 p.m., a trooper observed an eastbound 2018 Cadillac STS fail to move over for an emergency vehicle near mile marker 185 on Interstate 80. During the traffic stop, the trooper detected the odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle.

A search revealed approximately 5,000 THC hash oil vape cartridges and an ounce of suspected khat. The driver, Mohamed Abdulla, 25, of Brooklyn, New York, and passenger, Sarhan Abdullah, 43, of New Haven, Connecticut, were arrested for possession with intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance, and no drug tax stamp. Both men were lodged in Lincoln County Jail.

On Sunday, October 7, at approximately 4:35 p.m., a trooper stopped an eastbound 2016 Toyota SUV for speeding near mile marker 18 on I-80. The trooper conducted a search of the vehicle after becoming suspicious of criminal activity.

During the search, troopers found 26 pounds of marijuana located in luggage. The two occupants of the vehicle, Keshi Wu, 38, of Alameda, California, and Minchao Yu, 36, of Brooklyn, New York, were arrested for possession of marijuana – more than one pound, possession with intent to deliver, and no drug tax stamp. Both men were lodged in Kimball County Jail.

On Monday, October 8, at approximately 4:15 p.m., a trooper stopped an eastbound 2015 Lexus SUV for speeding near mile marker 186 on I-80. During the stop, the trooper became suspicious of criminal activity and conducted a search of the vehicle.

The search revealed 55 packages of marijuana inside bags in the cargo area. The total weight of the marijuana was approximately 55 pounds. The driver, Viktoria Belan, 40, of Mount Prospect, Illinois, was arrested for possession of marijuana – more than one pound, possession with intent to deliver, and no drug tax stamp. She was lodged in Lincoln County Jail.

WHITECLAY, Neb. (AP) — Activists are calling for more reforms in a tiny Nebraska town even after a state Supreme Court decision closed the community’s beer stores that sold millions of cans of beer each year despite an alcohol ban on a nearby Native American reservation.

Activists last week called for more action in Whiteclay, which borders South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Despite the town having only nine residents, its four beer stores sold the equivalent of about 3.5 million cans annually.

The reservation has faced a litany of alcohol-related problems, such as high rates of alcoholism and fetal alcohol syndrome.

Activists are working with the Nebraska State Patrol to fight possible bootlegging in neighboring cities and to form a cold-case unit to investigate mysterious deaths. They’re also urging lawmakers to provide more funding to fight bootlegging.