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A 37-year-old O’Neill man was sentenced by the Honorable Mark Kozisek last week in the Holt County district courtroom for driving under the influence of alcohol, fourth offense, a Class 3A felony. Kelly J. Wells was also sentenced to serve 90 days in the Holt County Jail, with credit for one day previously served; ordered not to drive for 45 days, followed by a 15-year revocation of his driver’s license; and fined $1,000 for the DUI and $25 for driving left of center. He was ordered to pay $1,100 in probation- related fees, $147 costs of pro...
A 29-year-old O’Neill woman, who was recently convicted in Holt County district court of taking more than $5,000 from a business during a two-month period last year, is suspected of taking much more over the last decade, according to Holt County attorney Brent Kelly. Jessica E. Menish was sentenced by the Honorable Mark Kozisek on Monday, July 19, to a five-year term of probation for a reduced charge, criminal attempt of theft by unlawful taking, a Class 3A felony (reduced pursuant to an April 19 plea deal with Kelly, from a Class 2 felony, t...
Louis Tushla left Holt County to protect his country. Eighty years later, Tushla returned home to a hero's welcome. Clearwater-area residents lined Highway 275, late Thursday afternoon, as Tushla's remains were carried from Offutt Air Force Base to Atkinson, where Tushla grew up. Some waved American flags, others stood with hands over heart, as a line of more than 70 American Legion Riders curved around the Elkhorn River bridge, northwest bound. Within the queue of vehicles, Seger Funeral Home t...
The Honorable Kale Burdick, presiding from the bench in the Holt County courtroom in O’Neill last Tuesday, July 6, sentenced an O’Neill woman to probation for not sending a 7-yearold child to school regularly. Kylli Latzel, 32, was ordered by Burdick to serve a one-year term of probation for a violation of compulsory education attendance requirement - failing to cause the child to attend school regularly between Sept. 28, 2020, and Feb.15 this year. She was ordered to pay the $30 probation enrollment fee and $60 in drug testing fees and was...
SUBMITTED ARTICLE An Atkinson soldier missing in action since World War II will return home to his final resting place in the Holt County community. According to the U.S. Navy, American Legion and Holt County Veteran Service Office, repatriation of F1C Louis Tushla is set July 15 to July 17. On Sept. 30, 2020, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Navy Fireman First Class Louis J. Tushla, 25, of Atkinson, killed during World War II, was accounted for on March 27, 2020. On Dec. 7,...
SUBMITTED ARTICLE O'Neill Community Foundation Fund and Holt County Economic Development Fund welcome Emily Morrow and Katie Hawk home for the summer to help local leadership further their missions. Morrow and Hawk are both students at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Morrow graduated from UNL in May with a dual degree in advertising and public relations and broadcasting. Hawk will begin her sophomore year in the fall at UNL studying business management. Both began their duties in May a...
A 2018 drug case was deposed in the Holt County district courtroom in O’Neill last Monday, June 14, with the Honorable Mark Kozisek presiding. Mark A. Harrison, 54, of O’Neill was fined $1,000 and taxed $181.25 costs of prosecution. Harrison was arrested Dec. 7, 2018, and charged in Holt County court Jan. 7, 2019, with three counts, possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) with intent to deliver, a Class 2 felony, and two Class 4 felony counts of possessing controlled substances (meth and anabolic steroids). The pro...
Two men were sentenced to prison by the Honorable Mark Kozisek in the Holt County district courtroom in O’Neill on Monday – melded to prison terms they were already serving. Kozisek sentenced Joshua A Boettcher, 29, of Stuart to 12 months in the Nebraska Department of Corrections on each of two felony convictions of possessing controlled substances. The prison sentences are ordered concurrent to each other and to a sentence Boettcher is serving for Holt County crimes committed in July 2019. In addition, Kozisek sentenced Boettcher to a 12-month...
Russell L. Meyer, 62, of Orchard appeared before the Honorable Donna Taylor last Wednesday, June 2, for arraignment on a charge of second-degree trespass/defy order to leave. Meyer requested court-appointed counsel. After holding an indigency hearing, Taylor appointed public defender Melissa Figueroa. Further arraignment is set June 16. Bond, in the amount of $1,500, 10% cash, posted May 4, is continued. According to a probable-cause affidavit filed by Antelope County sheriff Bob Moore, Meyer was arrested after he continued to trespass,...
Plea bargains were announced in two Antelope County district court cases last Wednesday, May 26, when the Honorable Mark Johnson presided from the bench of the courtroom in Neligh. Michael G. Loy, 51, of Elgin faced Johnson for a pretrial hearing on a felony count of driving under the influence of alcohol, (.15 grams or more) and an infraction open container violation. A plea deal was announced. Antelope County prosecutor Joe Abler reduced the felony DUI charge to to a Class W misdemeanor count, DUI, less than .15 grams, first offense, and...
The Ewing Alumni event held on May 29th, 2021 in the Ewing high school gymnasium, honored a few classes including: 1971, 2011, and 2020....
Justin W. Stoltz, 35, of Elgin faced the Honorable Donna Taylor in the Antelope County courtroom last Wednesday, May 19, for a pretrial hearing on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, .15 or greater, second offense, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Pursuant to a plea agreement with Antelope County attorney Joe Abler, Stoltz withdrew his previous not guilty plea and entered a no contest plea to an amended count, driving under the influence of alcohol, first offense, a Class W misdemeanor committed Jan. 23. In addition, Abler agreed not to...
William D. Anson, 37, of Orchard appeared before the Honorable Donna Taylor in the Antelope County court last Wednesday, May 19, facing a theft by shoplifting charge. Anson entered a not guilty plea to the Class 2 misdemeanor and requested a jury trial. Pretrial hearing is set June 16. Bond in the amount of $5,000, 10% cash, posted May 13 is continued. A warrant, ordered by Taylor on May 6, was served May 10. The arrest came after an investigation into the April 24 theft of DeWalt tools from the Neligh Bomgaars store. Anson allegedly left the s...
An O’Neill man was sentenced Monday, May 17, to concurrent probation terms in two separate felony cases, by the Honorable Mark Kozisek, in the Holt County district courtroom. Grady E. Seymour, 50, was sentenced to 18-months terms of probation for two Class 4 felony charges of possessing methamphetamine, including $570 in probation-related fees. In addition to standard terms of probation, Seymour was ordered to attend two Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings per week and obtain a sponsor for same, within 60 days. He must also o...
A theft by receiving stolen property was dropped as part of a plea deal, but the Atkinson man accused of the theft will still serve time in the county jail – for possession of methamphetamine and false reporting. Jose L. Rivera, 38, of Atkinson faced the Honorable Mark Kozisek in the Holt County district courtroom in O’Neill on May 10 for sentencing on four counts. Kozisec sentenced Rivera to serve 250 days in the Holt County Jail, with credit for 111 days previously served, for Count II, possession of a controlled substance, a Class 4 fel...
Angie Robertson, 44, of O’Neill was ordered by Holt County Judge Kale Burdick, last week, to pay $7,329 reimbursement to the O’Neill Junior Eagles Booster Club. Burdick also sentenced Robertson to a total of 30 days in the Holt County Jail, to commence May 21; a 24-month term of probation, including $630 probation fees; and taxed her $60 costs of prosecution. Robertson pleaded no contest March 23 to five Class 2 misdemeanor counts of second-degree forgery, 0 to $500, committed on five separate occasions in 2019; and one Class 1 misdemeanor cou...
Toddrick Nez, alias Nez Toddrick, 25, of Blue Gap, Arizona, pleaded guilty last week, by waiver, to an amended Holt County complaint. Nez was fined $100 and taxed costs of $50 for disturbing the peace, a Class 3 misdemeanor committed March 15 at an O’Neill motel. Bond filed March 15 in the amount of $3,000, 10% cash, was released. Nez was arrested by O’Neill officers, accused of banging on walls and hitting cars. San Oo, 20, of Omaha appeared in front of the Honorable Kale Burdick in the Holt County courtroom last Tuesday, May 4. Oo faced Bur...
Donald E. Vickers, 55, of Electra, Texas, faced the Honorable Mark Johnson in the Antelope County district courtroom in Neligh last Wednesday for an enhancement hearing and sentencing on a felony driving under the influence of alcoholic liquor, third offense. Johnson found prior DUI convictions were sufficient for Class 3A felony enhancement. Johnson found Vickers was not a suitable candidate for probation, that a sentence less than incarceration would depreciate the seriousness of the crime and promote disrespect for the law, and that...
SANDY SCHROTH sschroth@ summerlandadvocate.com San Oo, of Omaha, pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana, less than one ounce, first offense, committed in September 2020, by waiver. But the waiver came only after an arrest warrant was served. The warrant was issued after Oo failed to appear Jan. 19. He was cited by a Holt County deputy Sept. 22, 2020, about four miles west of O’Neill on Highway 20 and was given the option to waiver prior to Nov. 3, 2020, which he failed to do. According to court records, a court hearing was scheduled and h...
SANDY SCHROTH sschroth@ summerlandadvocate.com Three O'Neill residents were sentenced by the Honorable Mark Kozisek in the Holt County district courtroom in O'Neill last Monday, April 12. Fifty-four-year-old Andrew F. Clark was sentenced to not less than 18, nor more than 30 months, in an institution under the jurisdiction of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, on a Class 2 felony count, criminal attempt of possession of a deadly weapon by a prohibited person. Additionally, Clark was sentenced to not less than 12, nor more than...
Andrew J. Clifton, 52, of Orchard faced the Honorable Donna Taylor in the Antelope County court in Neligh last Wednesday, April 7, for pretrial hearings in two cases. A plea agreement was announced by Clifton’s attorney, Ronald Temple. Pursuant to the agreement, Clifton pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace, a Class 3 misdemeanor committed at his parent’s Orchard home Oct. 27, 2020. Taylor fined him $200 and assessed costs of prosecution in the amount of $52. In the second case, Clifton was charged with driving under the influence of alc...
The 2021 Orchard AAU Powerlifting Meet was Saturday, April 10, with an impressive line-up of 113 registered lifters from Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa representing 14 different teams. Thirty Summerland Bobcat powerlifters competed in this year's AAU Championships. "These 30 lifters had an outstanding day for the home crowd, breaking 10 total state and American records and every Summerland school record, not to mention each lifter setting numerous personal bests," said Coach Jeff Shabram. The e...
Jose A. Ibarra Ponce, 21, of O’Neill faced the Honorable Kale Burdick, in the Holt County courtroom, for arraignment in two separate cases last Tuesday, April 6. Ibarra Ponce waived his right to counsel. In the first case, he pleaded guilty to a pair of infraction counts, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana, one ounce or less, first offense, committed Feb.23. Burdick fined him $100 and $300, respectively, and taxed him $50 costs. According to a probable-cause affidavit filed by the arresting O’Neill police officer, Iba...
Donneceia McFarland, 34, of Oakdale faced the Honorable Donna Taylor in the Antelope County courtroom last Wednesday, April 7, for alleged second-degree forgery, $500-$1,500. McFarland requested court-appointed counsel. After holding an indigency hearing, Taylor appointed Antelope County public defender Melissa Figueroa. Further arraignment on the Class 1 misdemeanor, alleged Dec. 14, 2020, is set May 19. The complaint, filed by Antelope County attorney Joe Abler, alleged the Class 1 misdemeanor occurred Dec. 14, 2020, and referenced a bill of...
In a battle of wits ... and a little trivia ... Summerland - Clearwater and St. Mary's quiz bowl teams fought through two finals to determine a winner of the Niobrara Valley Conference quiz bowl. The local quizmasters brought home the runner-up award from the March 24 event, held in Niobrara. Summerland students defeated SMH, 35-25, to set the final round, which would require the Cardinals to push Summerland-Clearwater to two finals to earn the championship. St. Mary's capitalized on bonus...
