What you missed last week in notable Omaha crimes and court cases
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Last week's local crime and court updates from The World-Herald.
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Jack Olson is now awaiting trial on federal felony charges of tax evasion, wire fraud and conspiracy in relation to his fundraising activities for the Omaha's Latino Peace Officers’ Association.
A 63-year-old Valley man was sentenced to jail time Thursday for a crash that killed an Omaha doctor on his bicycle.Â
A 27-year-old Omaha man was sentenced Wednesday to over 22 years in federal prison for a 2023 bank robbery that left two employees injured.Â
Day care van driver found guilty in hot car death of 1-year-old. Judge: 'He made a horrible mistake'
A former day care van driver was found guilty on Thursday of felony negligent child abuse resulting in death after he mistakenly left a 1-year-old girl in the hot vehicle for more than five hours last August.Â
In an emotional and often tense morning of testimony, an Omaha man accused in the death of a 1-year-old girl who was left in a hot day care van for more than five hours took the stand in his own defense.Â
A Sarpy County District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the mother of a La Vista boy who went missing from his elementary school in 2021.
The 35-year-old man was shot around 2 a.m. inside a house along Charles Street just east of Northwest Radial Highway.
The principal said in a letter the two students got into an altercation prior to the last day of the school year starting. The principal said the student who was cut is expected to be OK.
Testimony continued Tuesday in the trial of Ryan Williams, a former van driver for an Omaha daycare accused of causing the death of a 1-year-old girl by leaving her in a hot van for more than five hours.Â
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A man was critically injured in a shooting in Omaha’s Florence neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
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 31-year-old man has died after being shot in North Omaha Wednesday night.
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.
'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 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
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
