Omaha officers accused of backing up traffic
YORK (AP) —Two Omaha po
lice officers were charged with care
less driving because of reports that
they backed up traffic on Interstate
80, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The officers, Ron Fyfe and Joe
Schenkelberg, do not face discipline
from the Omaha Police Department,
said Officer Jim Murray, a police
spokesman. No internal investiga
tion will be done unless the depart
ment receives a complaint from a
citizen, Murray said.
Deputy York County Attorney
Matt Dreesen said Tuesday that
Schenkelberg, 35, and Fyfe, 48, each
face charges of careless driving and
impeding traffic. Both offenses carry
$100 fines. The officers are sched
uled to appear April 19 in York County
Court.
The two officers allegedly drove
their police cars side-by-side on In
terstate 80 for 40 miles or more as
they headed on March 19 to a law
enforcement training center in Grand
Island.
“We had some pretty infuriated
citizens back there,” Dreesen said.
“They had been doing that for about
two hours.”
Dreesen said he included careless
driving in charges he filed Thursday
because of reports the police cars
sped up and slowed down. They also
occasionally turned on their red lights
and talked on their radios as they
drove down the interstate, he said.
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“I find that very hard to believe,”
said Murray, who said he knows both
officers personally.
Several people following the of
ficers reported they varied their speed
from about 45 mph to nearly 70 mph,
Dreesen said.
A Nebraska State Patrol officer
allegedly clocked the officers at 62.5
mph and pulled them over near York.
School district sued over policy
OMAHA (AP) — A third lawsuit
has been filed against the Omaha
School District over its policy to ex
pel students for two semesters if they
are caught with a weapon or injure
someone at school.
The latest lawsuit was filed Mon
day in Douglas County District Court
by Paul Dilly, the father of Dustin
Jolliffe.
Jolliffe, 14, was caught with an
unopened pocketknife connected to a
key chain in an English class on Jan.
31, attorney Kate Mahern said.
Mahem is director of the Creighton
Legal Clinic.
The item had a nail file and a knife
blade — both 15/8 inches long, she
said.
The ninth-grader was expelled for
the rest of this semester, summer
school and the first semester of next
school year. The suit asks the court to
reverse the expulsion and allow
Jolliffe to return immediately to
school.
No one was hurt, and there was no
intent to use the knife, Mahem said.
She said she did not know why the
knife case was out in the open or who
caught him with it.
Dilly and his son could not be
reached for comment.
“I don’t think anyone would con
sider a little 15/8-inch pocketknife a
weapon,” Mahem said. The punish
ment is too harsh, she said.
School district officials declined
to comment, saying they had not re
ceived notice of the lawsuit.
The district automatically expels
students if they possess a weapon or
injure someone at school. The
district’s policy, which went into ef
fect this school year, bans knives of
any type.
Two other lawsuits against the
policy have been successful.
In both cases, which were decided
in January, judges reduced the expul
sion of two eighth-graders from two
semesters to one semester.
Kerrey: Don’t deny abortionfunds
OMAHA (AP)—Sen. Bob Kerrey
said Tuesday he didn’t think he would
support an amendment by fellow
Nebraska Democrat Sen. Jim Exon
that would allow Nebraska to with
hold funds for abortions in cases of
rape or incest.
Currently, Nebraska law allows
use of Medicaid funds for abortions
only when the mother’s life is in
danger.
“I’ve reached the conclusion that
as long as that medical procedure is
legal, and I think it ought to be legal,
that we ought to make it available to
rich and poor alike,” Kerrey said in a
media teleconference.
A federal law known as the Hyde
Amendment barred federal funding
of abortions, except when the
mother’s life was in danger. In 1993,
it was expanded to cover pregnancies
resulting from rape or incest. The
change sparked federal lawsuits in 10
states.
Since May, judges presiding over
suits in eight states — Arkansas,
Nebraska, North Dakota, Colorado,
Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan
and Montana — have struck down
state restrictions that were stricter
than the Hyde Amendment.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals is deciding an appeal by the
state of Nebraska of a ruling made in
November by U.S. District Judge
Richard G. Kopf. The ruling threw
out state regulations that barred
spending Medicaid funds on abor
tions except if the pregnancy threat
ened the mother’s life.
Kerrey also used Tuesday’s news
conference to soften his opposition to
the balanced-budget amendment.
“I don’t have as much confidence
that it wouldn’t produce some ben
eficial impact at least in terms of
moving the debate forward,” he said.
Giltner man charged in scam
GRAND ISLAND (AP) — A
Giltner man has been charged with
theft by deception in a scheme that
authorities say bilked money from
investors.
A Belgrade couple and a Silver
Creek man claim they lost
$290,000 in loans to Frank A.
Detamore, 51, for investments in
such items as plastic fence materi
als "manufactured in Lexington,
grain bins in Mexico and a gold
and silver product called dore, ac
cording to court records.
The U.S. District Attorney’s of
fice in Omaha and the Nebraska
State Patrol are investigating the
two cases and other incidents, said
Lt. Bill Schlachter, head of crimi
nal investigations for the Nebraska
State Patrol in Grand Island.
Detamore and a Grand Island
bookkeeper were named in State
Patrol affidavits and Hall County
search warrants.
Detamore was charged in Hall
County Court in February with
felony theft by deception for ob
taining $ 150,000 from Vernon and
Ardene Zumbrunn of Belgrade.
Detamore’s preliminary hearing in
county court will be April 12 be
fore Judge David Bush.
An elderly Silver Creek man
also told the patrol that he gave
Detamore $ 140,000 as investments
to purchase grain bins and grain to
be shipped to Mexico.
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