O'Neill woman gets probation for not sending child to school

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 taxed $60 costs of prosecution. Burdick waived $300 in probation program fees.

Latzel pleaded guilty May 18, pursuant to a plea deal, in exchange for county attorney Brent Kelly recommending probation. Latzel was represented by public defender Rodney Smith.

Burdick found sufficient cause existed to try Charles E. Krysl, 45, of O’Neill on two felony counts. He bound Krysl over to the Holt County district court, with arraignment set July 19 on a Class 2A felony burglary charge and a Class 4 felony theft count ($1,500 - $4,999). Bond, in the amount of $10,000, 10% cash, posted May 27, is continued.

Items allegedly taken from several rural Holt County locations by the defendant and an accomplice, between Oct. 1, 2020, and April 16 this year, include tools, tire chains and several catalytic converters that were removed from vehicles.

Krysl was arrested by Holt County officers May 26.

He is represented by court-appointed counsel, Martin Klein of Neligh.

Kyle R. Boettcher, 32, of Stuart appeared for pretrial hearing on five charges committed March 3 in O’Neill.

He withdrew his previous not guilty pleas and pleaded guilty to all charges, pursuant to a plea deal with Kelly.

Boettcher was sentenced to serve 10 days in the Holt County Jail on each of three counts, no valid registration, a Class 3 misdemeanor; no proof of financial responsibility, a Class 2 misdemeanor; and no operator’s license, a Class 3 misdemeanor; along with a $100 fine for possession of drug paraphernalia, an infraction.

He received another seven days in the county jail and an additional $500 fine for an enhanced count, third offense possession of marijuana, one ounce or less, a Class 3A misdemeanor. The jail sentences were ordered concurrent to each other, and he was given credit for 10 days previously served. The judge ordered fines and costs be sat out at the standard rate of $150 per day, a request made by Boettcher as part of the plea deal, consecutive to jail sentences ordered on the convictions. He was taxed $52 costs of prosecution.

Boettcher was represented by Smith.

Burdick sentenced Verity S. Garcia, 30, of Peterson, Iowa, to 10 days in the county jail, a $500 fine and revoked her driver’s license for six months on Count I, driving under the influence of alcohol, first offense, a Class W misdemeanor. She was given credit for one day previously served and Burdick granted her request to serve the time on weekends. Additionally, Garcia was fined $50 for operating a vehicle without proof of ownership, a Class 3 misdemeanor, along with fines of $100 for possession of drug paraphernalia, $300 for possession of marijuana, one ounce or less, first offense, and $50 for possession of an open alcohol container, all infractions.

She was assessed $60 costs of prosecution.

Garcia waived her right to counsel and pleaded guilty to the four counts May 11, as part of a plea deal with Kelly, who dismissed three counts, refusal to submit to chemical test, no proof of financial responsibility and a second count of possessing drug paraphernalia.

Garcia was arrested March 13 by an O’Neill police officer and bonded out the same day.

Ariel E. Larsen, 21, of Stuart pleaded guilty, by waiver, to possession of an open alcohol container. She was fined $50 and $49 costs. She was cited July 4 by a Holt County officer, in Stuart.

Pedro Hernandez Robles, 33, of Norfolk pleaded guilty, by waiver, to driving a commercial vehicle without a CDL. He was fined $100 and $49 costs. Hernandez Robles was cited June 1 by a Nebraska State Patrol carrier

enforcement officer at the Highway 275/20 scale.