What you missed last week in notable Omaha crimes and court cases
Last week's local crime and court updates from The World-Herald.
(8) updates to this series since Updated
The police detective testified a hotel employee paid $60 to have sex with an underage girl. The detective testified another employee provided the money from a hotel register.
The trial for an Omaha surgeon accused of racing down Dodge Street before causing a fatal crash is set to begin Tuesday. Defense attorneys intend to argue that he was unconscious prior to the crash.
An Omaha woman will face the possibility of life in prison when she is sentenced in April after pleading no contest in a fatal stabbing.Â
A 20-year-old man will serve at least 40 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole in connection with the fatal shooting of a teenage girl who was asleep in her North Omaha home.Â
A former family medicine doctor at a CHI Health clinic has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.Â
More than 45 years after a brutal double murder — and nearly 20 years since a clerical error forced prosecutors to drop charges against the prime suspect — an Omaha man is again facing charges for the 1979 slayings of a mother and her young son.Â
A Plattsmouth man who pleaded guilty to hitting and killing pedestrian with his pickup truck, then fleeing the scene in midtown Omaha last fall, was sentenced to four years in prison.
At an emotional hearing on Wednesday, a 31-year-old Omaha man was sentenced to decades in prison for the killing 19-year-old Dontayzhia Swift in 2023.Â
Trial continued on Tuesday for an Omaha surgeon charged with manslaughter in a fatal crash with a numbers-heavy day of testimony from a defense expert in accident reconstruction.Â
A man went to a hospital in critical condition Sunday morning following a shooting south of downtown Omaha.
The manslaughter trial for an Omaha surgeon accused of causing a fatal crash while racing down Dodge Street at more than 100 mph entered its third day on Friday with testimony from crash investigators.Â
The first-degree murder case against an Omaha man will head towards trial after a homicide detective for the Omaha Police Department said that eyewitness accounts and DNA evidence link the man to the killing.
A Papillion woman has been charged with child abuse after she allegedly dragged her 15-year-old daughter with her vehicle.
A 34-year-old Omaha man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing of his girlfriend and dumping her body outside of Lincoln.Â
The Nebraska State Patrol and Clay County Sheriff’s Office are investigating an apparent attempted murder-suicide that occurred Friday in rural Harvard, about 33 miles south of Grand Island.Â
