What you missed last week in notable Omaha crimes and court cases
Last week's local crime and court updates from The World-Herald.
(13) updates to this series since Updated
An Omaha woman pleaded no contest on Wednesday to reduced charges of manslaughter and possessing a firearm while committing a felony in connection with the fatal shooting of a security guard last summer.Â
A former Omaha Boy Scout Scoutmaster pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to one count of attempted child enticement and admitted to attempting to meet an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl for sex.Â
The incident began around 8:15 p.m. Thursday when state troopers went to a residence in the 6200 of South 30th Street in Omaha to follow up on an active arrest warrant.
'An active investigation' in Omaha after suspect exchanges gunfire with police, flees Thursday night
More than two dozen law enforcement officers, including from Nebraska State Patrol and Omaha Police, gathered near Omaha's South 30th and Jefferson Streets Thursday evening.
A 49-year-old man convicted for shooting his ex-girlfriend to death in Omaha and then burying her body in a shallow grave in Kansas was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.
A 31-year-old man has died after being shot in North Omaha Wednesday night.
Omaha police officers and a Nebraska Humane Society animal control officer rescued a recently adopted dog from a hot car outside the CHI Health Center in downtown Omaha.
Omaha police have identified a motorcyclist who was killed in a collision in South Omaha Monday.
The man suspected in the death of an 34-year-old Omaha woman took his own life Tuesday afternoon before police officers could apprehend him, according to the Omaha Police Department.Â
A man was critically injured in a shooting in Omaha’s Florence neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
A Nebraska prison inmate serving a sentence for kidnapping and raping a teenage girl died Sunday at an Omaha hospital.
A woman found guilty of participating in a North Omaha gunbattle last year has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison.Â
A 31-year-old man has died after being shot in North Omaha Wednesday night. That's the fifth homicide this month in Omaha and the 10th this year.
A 40-year-old woman accused of helping a 42-year-old man elude law enforcement last week was ordered to be held on $250,000 bail.
An Omaha woman found guilty of manslaughter and use of a firearm to commit a felony in a shooting death outside a Florence neighborhood bar sentenced to 45 to 65 years in prison.Â
An ambulance was stolen from a metro hospital Wednesday evening before crashing in northwest Omaha. The suspect, a man, was injured and taken to UNMC in serious condition.
Omaha police are investigating a pair of shootings that reportedly occurred during the overnight hours Wednesday and Thursday.
Lorenzo Washington’s second-degree murder sentence stems from his guilty plea in April for the killing and sexual assault of 58-year-old Rita Hash in June 2022.
A 30-year-old Council Bluffs man died from his injuries Thursday after a 17-year-old boy allegedly crashed into his motorcycle along L Street in Omaha, according to authorities.
A 36-year-old Omaha woman has been arrested on suspicion of setting her own home on fire, according to the Omaha Fire Department.Â
A 27-year-old Omaha man has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder in connection with a May homicide.
Omaha police responded to a shooting Saturday afternoon that left a man injured, authorities said.
Two people were taken to a hospital early Sunday, including one with life-saving measures in progress, following a shooting at the Los-Diablos Motorcycle Club in North Omaha.
Police have made an arrest in connection with the shooting of an 18-year-old man Saturday at a smoke shop in northwest Omaha.Â
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The man, known as one of Colorado's most notorious sex offenders, will face life in prison when he's sentenced in August.
Four Nebraska law enforcement nonprofits brought in less than $1 million of the $6 million fundraisers brought in between fiscal years 2009 and 2022, according to a World-Herald review of IRS records.
