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
An Omaha woman charged in a Douglas County arrest warrant with intentional cruelty to an animal resulting in death was arrested Friday without incident. Â
A 30-year-old man faces charges of first-degree murder after two Omaha men were found shot dead in separate Council Bluffs roadways last weekend.Â
An Omaha man was sentenced last week to more than 11 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to carrying out two armed robberies at local banks.Â
An 18-year-old Omaha man charged in an arrest warrant with being accessory to a fatal shooting in November has been booked into the Douglas County Jail.
An Omaha man became the second person arrested in connection with the shooting of two men in the Benson business district.Â
A Bellevue man was sentenced Monday to six to 12 years in prison for fatally assaulting a fellow inmate at the Sarpy County Jail last year.Â
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies arrested two men on suspicion of looting activity near the Elkhorn area in the aftermath of Friday’s tornado.
The site of a 2022 shooting that left a 20-year-old Omaha woman dead has been transformed into a therapeutic group home for female teenagers.Â
A 38-year-old Bellevue man convicted in February of killing his two toddler children was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences Monday.
A Council Bluffs man was sentenced on Monday to 16 to 17 years behind bars for fatally shooting another man at a car show last summer.
An Omaha man who was shot multiple times by police after he drove his car toward a crowd of people celebrating Halloween in the Minne Lusa neighborhood was sentenced Tuesday to 12 to 16 years in prison.
A Bellevue man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months to two year in prison for being an accessory to a fatal assault of a fellow inmate at the Sarpy County Jail last year.Â
An Ashland man pleaded no contest on Wednesday to reduced charges related to a July 2023 shooting of two men at a southwest Omaha apartment complex.Â
Council Bluffs police officers are investigating human remains found near U.S. Highway 275 in southeast Council Bluffs.
"We agree that the photographs of (Sydney) Loofe’s recovered body were graphic and gruesome, but so too was the crime," Nebraska Supreme Court Justice Stephanie Stacy wrote in Friday's decision.
