What you missed last week in notable Omaha crimes and court cases
Last week's local crime and court updates from The World-Herald.
(7) updates to this series since Updated
The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling to dismiss defamation and other claims for a Catholic priest accused of sexual misconduct against the Archdiocese of Omaha on Friday.
A new lawsuit filed in Missouri accuses Omaha Archbishop George Lucas of sexually abusing a teen-aged seminarian in St. Louis in the late 1980s, an allegation that Lucas denies.
Omaha's new $27 million juvenile detention center sits empty nearly a year after the controversial project's completition. From the Flatwater Free Press
An Omaha man was sentenced on Wednesday to 16 months in federal prison for speeding past security at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue and driving around the base with a gun in his vehicle in 2022.Â
Multiple residents of a midtown Omaha apartment building were forced to evacuate after a fire broke out early Tuesday morning.
An Omaha man pleaded no contest and was found guilty of felony motor vehicle homicide last week in connection with a crash that ejected and killed a passenger in his truck as he attempted to flee from a traffic stop.Â
An Omaha man fatally shot another man near Carter Lake in May before setting fire to the stolen car used in the shooting, according to testimony Monday from an Omaha police detective. Â
The former manager of multiple group homes for disabled adults in Blair was sentenced on Wednesday to jail time and probation for the financial exploitation of multiple clients.Â
Two Omaha residents after troopers pulled them on Interstate 80 near York.
A Valley man charged with recording himself having sex with two females without their permission has been sentenced to one year of probation. Â
Jack Olson, a longtime fundraiser for police organizations, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of tax evasion in federal court in Lincoln on Thursday.Â
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will allow parts of a federal civil rights lawsuit to go forward against three Papillion police officers in connection with a traffic stop in 2019.
On Friday, a Washington County jury found a 24-year-old Council Bluffs man guilty of shooting the mother of his child and killing her brother in May 2023.Â
A 35-year-old Omaha man charged with first-degree sexual assault of a child is being held without bail.
An 18-year-old Omaha man will spend more than 60 years in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder and three other felonies for the 2021 killing of 14-year-old Isabella Santiago.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a 39-year-old Scottsbluff man's conviction on a "revenge porn" charge, rejecting his attorney's argument that the law violated his right to free speech.Â
