BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man who died after a fire at his Bellevue apartment.
Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov said Tuesday that 39-year-old Juan Robles died of smoke inhalation.
The fire was reported around 5:20 p.m. Sunday. Firefighters found Robles inside the apartment. He was taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The fire cause is being investigated.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha authorities have identified a 39-year-old woman critically injured in an officer-involved shooting this week.
Officers say they responded Tuesday night to a report of an assault in progress at a home, where a female armed with a knife confronted them.
According to a police report, officers shot at the woman who’s been identified as Tiffany Terry. She was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center, where officials say she’s in critical condition.
An investigation is ongoing.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Omaha man has died at a hospital after his car crashed into a wooden utility pole.
Omaha police investigators say witnesses report seeing a vehicle driven by Carl Goodburn, who’s in his late 50s, weaving in and out of traffic before his car crashed into a utility pole on Tuesday. They say it’s unclear whether a medical emergency caused the crash.
A person performed CPR on Goodburn to try and revive him before paramedics arrived. He was taken to a hospital, where officials say he died several hours after the wreck occurred.
An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of Goodburn’s death.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say officer involvement is suspected in a shooting that has hospitalized one woman.
Deputy Chief Dave Baker said the incident is being investigated as an officer-involved shooting. A call for shots fired came in around 4:50 p.m. and was later upgraded to a shooting when police said a woman was hurt.
The woman was taken to Nebraska Medical Center in critical condition.
Baker says there were several witnesses on the scene.
The woman’s name and other details about the shooting haven’t been released. Police say investigation is ongoing.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials in western Iowa have arrested an Omaha man accused of stealing cattle and plan to arrest two others thought to be involved.
Cass County Sheriff Darby McLaren says the trio is suspected in cattle thefts from two farms in the Lewis, Iowa, area.
The investigation began when two cattle were reported stolen in May from Freund Brothers Farms. The farm reported the theft of two more in June. Another four cattle were reported stolen in June from JW Freund Farms.
Police say 57-year-old Ervin John Jacob was charged Thursday with three counts of second-degree theft and one count of ongoing criminal conduct. They say he is suspected in all three incidents.
Online court records do not list an attorney for Jacob.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 19-year-old man has been convicted of two weapons charges connected to the death of an Omaha 5-year-old struck by a rifle bullet that penetrated a wall of her home.
Prosecutors made a deal with Jaylen Montgomery, who pleaded no contest on Monday to use of a firearm and discharging a firearm at an occupied building. Montgomery faces up to 54 years in prison when he’s sentenced on April 3.
Montgomery was one of four men charged in the slaying of Payton Benson. Authorities say the four were riding in a stolen vehicle on Jan. 15 last year when they spotted someone they thought was a rival gang member. They opened fire, and one of the bullets went through a wall of Payton’s home, through her and out another wall.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County District judge has sentenced Erica Jenkins to life in prison for the 2013 shooting death of a man.
Judge Peter Bataillon also sentenced Jenkins to 80 to 100 years for weapons counts for the Aug. 11, 2013, killing of Curtis Bradford.
Jenkins is the sister of Nikko Jenkins, who last year was convicted in the killing of Bradford, as well as the 2013 shooting deaths of Andrea Kruger and two others in separate attacks.
Erica Jenkins still faces a second murder trial in the slaying of Kruger.
Authorities say the siblings shot Bradford after luring him out on the pretense of committing a robbery.
Erica Jenkins, who’s already serving time for robbery, was not in the courtroom for Tuesday’s sentencing.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old Wahoo man won’t be prosecuted for fatally shooting another man in north-central Omaha.
Daniel Lorenz had been arrested after Thursday’s shooting of 29-year-old Jameson Toler. But on Monday, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said, “It looks like the evidence shows the shooting was justified.”
Lorenz apparently fired in self-defense after Toler broke Lorenz’s vehicle windshield with his bare hands. Kleine says Lorenz had gone to the scene to help Toler’s wife during a domestic dispute.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors have cleared a Council Bluffs officer who opened fire at a man who police say tried to run down the officer and another.
Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber said Monday that Officer Jarrod Poore used justified force on Dec. 23.
The officers had approached a parked Corvette that had been reported as stolen. They say the driver accelerated toward them and struck an unmarked police vehicle, but neither officer was injured. A chase ensued across the Missouri River into Omaha, Nebraska, and 33-year-old Jesse Wilkinson soon was arrested. He was treated for gunshot wounds.
Wilber says Wilkinson faces several charges. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.
BROWNVILLE, Neb. (AP) — The utility that owns Cooper nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska has signed a long-term deal to buy fuel for the plant through 2034.
The Nebraska Public Power District recently approved the contract with Global Nuclear Fuel.
The contract covers nine planned reloadings between now and 2034. It could be worth more than $100 million for Global Nuclear.
Global Nuclear or one of its predecessors has provided all the fuel for Cooper over the life of the plant near Brownville, Nebraska, on the banks of the Missouri River.
Global Nuclear is a joint venture of GE, Hitachi and Toshiba that has operated since 2000. Before that its predecessor, GE Nuclear, was a subsidiary of GE.
