Omaha officers mishandled
Baldwin, attorney teDs court
OMAHA (AP)—An attorney for
a former Nebraska football player said
two rookie police officers should have
waited for help before tackling a man
they knew to be mentally ill.
Instead, attorney E. Terry
Sibbemsen said, the two officers tried
to subdue Scott Baldwin cm Sept. 5,
1992. During the struggle Baldwin
was shot in die chest and paralyzed
from the chest down.
Baldwin has filed a $1 million law
suit against the city of Omaha in con
nection with the incident. The case
opened Monday in Douglas County
District Court.
Sibbemsen questioned the extent
of police training that police Officer
Peggy Truckenbrod had received on
approaching and handling a mentally
ill person.
Sibbemsen said Truckenbrod and
her partner, Officer Anna Doyle, failed
to follow police department policies
for approaching and handling a men
tally ill person. They claim the offic
ers should have waited for help from
other officers on the night Baldwin
was shot.
Police have said that Baldwin was
reaching for Thicken brod’s gun when
Doyle fired.
Baldwin sat in his wheelchair next
to his attorney’s table, taking notes as
Truckenbrod testified. Baldwin is a
pah-time telemarketer in Lincoln and
receives monthly disability checks.
Truckenbrod testified she had re
ceived some training on handling a
mentally ill person in an emergency
but could not say how much.
When Baldwin was shot, Doyle
and Truckenbrod were on probation
ary status, which lasts two years for
new officers.
Truckenbrod said that when she
responded to the call, she had known
Baldwin had been involved in an al
tercation with a Lincoln woman the
previous January. She also said she
knew from news reports that Baldwin
had been arrested and had been receiv
ing treatment since that incident.
Baldwin was under a Lancaster
County District Court judge’s order to
remain under outpatient psychiatric
care and take medication when he suf
fered another psychotic episode and
was shot in Omaha.
Man, five sons admit to smuggling
The family ran the
biggest drug ring in
western Nebraska in
the 1980s.
OMAHA (AP) — A 66-year-old
Bayard man who posed as a farmer
but secretly oversaw a massive drug
ring faces more than 15 years in jail.
Daniel Lujan and five of his sons
were involved in smuggling cocaine
and marijuana for more than 20 years
through Texas and Mexico and into
Nebraska, said Robert Kokrda, the
assistant U.S. attorney who handled
the case.
The eldest Lujan was sentenced to
15 years and eight months in jail Mon
day by U.S. District Judge William
Cambridge.
The Lujan network was the biggest
in western Nebraska in the late 1980s,
Kokrda said.
The smuggling began in the early
or mid-1970s, when Lujan began trav
eling to Texas to obtain marijuana to
bring it back to Nebraska. Macario
Lujan, Daniel’s eldest son, convinced
his father they should sell cocaine as
well because it was more lucrative and
less bulky to handle, Kokrda said.
Kokrda said the father and son
probably made more than $10 million
from their drug trade. He said they
acquired more than 300 pounds of
cocaine and a dozen tons of marijuana.
All five of Lujan’s sons have
pleaded guilty to drug offenses. In
March, Macario Lujan, 43, was the
first son to be sentenced. He received
14 years in prison.
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Drive for bone marrow
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Honorary seeks 500
donors for possible
transplant matches.
From Staff Reports
A student honorary group is
asking students to offer their arms
to help someone else’s bones.
The National Residence Hall
Honorary is conducting its Bone
Marrow Donor Drive, which is part
of the National Bone Marrow Do
nor Drive co-sponsored by the Red
Cross.
About 30,000 people are diag
nosed with potentially fatal blood
diseases each year, according to the
national program. The most com
mon disease is leukemia, which can
possibly be cured by a bone mar
row transplant.
Bone marrow is a vital bodily
fluid found in the cavities of bones.
It produces components of human
blood, such as red blood cells,
platelets and white blood cells —
a major player in the body’s im
3 mune system.
Transplanted marrow must
have the same type, or physical
makeup, as the marrow of the re
cipient. Otherwise it will be re
jected.
Though the best transplant can
didates are family members, those
in need of a transplant may have
to look elsewhere if a relative is not
available.
That elsewhere could come
from the few teaspoons of blood
each participant in the blood drive
contributes, said Raquel Wright,
National Residence Hall Honorary
president, in a press release.
Each sample will be tested to
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be entered into a national database
maintained by the program and
available when someone in need of
a transplant needs to find a blood
match.
Collecting and typing a single
blood sample costs $45, and the or
ganizers of the national drive will
pay half that cost.
The UNL chapter’s goal is to
attract 500 donors and raise
$15,000 to pay for blood sampling
and typing.
People can donate blood on:
■ Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon
at Christ Lutheran Church, 4325
Sumner St.; and 1:30 p.m. to 5:30
pjn. at St. Mark’s Church, 740 N.
70th St.
■ Monday from 8 a.m. to noon
at the Culture Center; and 1 p.m.
to 5 p.m. at Nebraska Union.
■ April 15 from 8 a.m. to noon
at Burr Residence Hall lobby on
East Campus; and from 1 p.m. to 5
p.m. at Northeast Missionary
Church, 3333 N. 66th St.
Information on how to donate
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ing (402) 464-9194.
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