LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have accused a Lincoln woman of having her sister impersonate her and take the driver’s license test so the woman could get a Nebraska license.
Court records say 28-year-old Niketa Williams and 35-year-old Angela Myles are charged with illegally possessing a vital record. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for either or both of them. Their next court date is Feb. 6.
Investigators say facial recognition software identified the similarity between the image of the applicant, Myles, and images on record for Williams. Interviews with the women led officials to suspect Williams had impersonated Myles in November and that Myles had given Williams her birth certificate to get the license.
NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Norfolk man has been killed in a collision.
The crash occurred around 3:15 p.m. Thursday on the north side of Norfolk. 25-year-old Tyson Freeman was killed. Nebraska State Patrol Capt. Paul Hattan said Friday that the other driver, Kent Wilkie, of Wayne, was hospitalized.
Hattan says Wilkie was driving north and apparently didn’t see Freeman’s eastbound vehicle before the two collided at an intersection.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A second man has been charged with killing a U.S. Army soldier who was visiting Omaha relatives for the holidays.
Police said in a news release Friday that 35-year-old Jason Devers was arrested Thursday. Court records say he’s charged with first-degree murder. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.
Twenty-seven-year-old Larry Goynes was arrested Jan. 12 and faces the same charge. His attorney, Stu Dornan, says Goynes will plead not guilty.
Devers and Goynes are suspected of shooting to death 27-year-old Kyle LeFlore outside the Reign Lounge early on Jan. 6.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A couple considered persons of interest in the death of a Nebraska woman now face a series of charges in an unrelated gold coin scheme.
A grand jury has leveled 14 counts against 51-year-old Aubrey Trail and 23-year-old Bailey Boswell for allegedly defrauding two people of more than $400,000.
Investigators allege that Trial used a false name in November 2015 when he convinced a Kansas couple of entering a joint venture to purchase a gold coin, with the understanding they would later sell the coin and split the profits. However, the coin wasn’t worth what Trial claimed, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Russell.
“As part of the scheme, Trail and Boswell set up false documents and websites to convey the appearance of a legitimate transaction,” Russell said.
Trail’s lawyer, Korey Reiman, said his client will plead not guilty next week.
The two are also persons of interest in the death of 24-year-old Sidney Loofe. Authorities have said Loofe disappeared Nov. 15, a day after going on a date with Boswell arranged on Tinder, an online dating app. Loofe’s body was found in December in rural Clay County.
Trail and Boswell have denied their involvement in Loofe’s disappearance and death in videos posted to social media.
Trail has 11 felony convictions that are largely related to theft or fraud. Boswell has no felony convictions, but has an open case in Pennsylvania. Boswell remains in a Wilber jail. Trail was recently transferred to the Leavenworth Detention Center, a maximum-security facility in Kansas.
Trail and Boswell met in Missouri in 2016, and they traveled to antique shows and shops around the U.S. Federal prosecutors charged them last year with transporting stolen goods across state lines from Kansas to Nebraska.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man convicted in the 2013 shooting death of another man on a north Omaha street.
Teon Hill was convicted in 2016 of first-degree murder and two weapons counts for the death of 34-year-old Virgil Dunn. Police said Dunn was shot in an apparent robbery while walking on an Omaha street.
Hill was sentenced to life in prison and more time for the weapons counts. He appealed, arguing among other things that the trial court wrongly overruled his attorney’s motion to suppress evidence from Hill’s arrest, which he contended was illegal, and for failing to find that Hill’s trial attorney was ineffective.
On Friday, the high court found that Hill’s arguments were without merit and upheld his conviction.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say no one was injured when a small airplane made an emergency landing in a field southwest of Omaha.
The incident happened Saturday afternoon when the pilot reported to the Millard Airport that his plane was in engine failure. The plane landed around 3 p.m. in a field near 144th and Giles.
Omaha television station KETV reports that Oracle Aviation owns the aircraft. The business says a student pilot and instructor were on board the single-engine aircraft when it was forced to land. There was no damage to the aircraft.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to 110 to 130 years in prison for killing an Omaha resident.
Court records say the sentenced was handed down Tuesday to Jeffrey Loving, whom a jury found guilty of second-degree murder and of a weapons crime. Prosecutors say he shot to death Marshall “Mickey” Washington Jr. on Washington’s 49th birthday, July 7, 1996.
Police say Loving had been shooting at an uncle over a drug debt.
The records say Loving’s request for a new trial has been denied.
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — A mother in northeast Nebraska whose filthy home reeked has been sentenced for child abuse.
42-year-old Jennifer Corrin was given 90 days in jail on each of the four misdemeanor counts. She was credited for 187 days already spent in custody.
Corrin was arrested in July after police responding to a call at her South Sioux City home saw cockroaches on the walls, old food containers, rotten food, pizza crusts, dog feces, piles of dirty clothes and open bags of trash throughout the house.
Her children have been placed with foster families.
Records say Corrin was convicted of two counts of child abuse in 2015 in a similar case. She served more than seven months after violating her probation.
DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A body found inside a house that burned in Dakota City has been identified as an eastern Nebraska man.
Dakota County Sheriff’s Office identified the man Wednesday as 29-year-old Calvin C. Clark, of Macy.
Firefighters were called to the house fire the night of Jan. 11 and found the body inside. The homeowner, who was in Arizona, told authorities no one was supposed to be in the house.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have accused a Lincoln woman of having her sister impersonate her and take the driver’s license test so the woman could get a Nebraska license.
