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By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
Starting Nebraska wingback
ShSvin Wiggins was arrested Friday
by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s
office and charged with sexual assault
of a child.
Wiggins, 24, was arrested with
Floyd Brown III, 22, after a three
week investigation by the Sheriff’s
office concluded the two fondled two
14-year-old girls July 25th and 26th at
the girls’ home on East Pioneers Blvd.
Wiggins was charged with one
count of the class III felony while
Brown was charged with two counts.
According to a Sheriff’s office
press release, the two accompanied
another man - a boyfriend of a third
resident - to the house. He has not
been charged in the incident.
While at the house, Wiggins and
Brown made “inappropriate sexual
contact” on two 14-year-old girls, the
July heat may have
caused train derailment
The cause of a Burlington
Northern Santa Fe coal train derail
ment July 28 near the intersection of
14th Street and Highway 2 is still
under investigation.
Three cars fell off the tracks,
damaging the rails and blocking traf
fic around the intersection. No one
was injured. ^
Burlington-Northern Santa Fe
spokesman Steve Forsburg said the
extreme July heat could have warped
the rails along the track, contributing
to the accident, but he is still unsure
of the actual cause.
July heatwave
claims Lincoln man
A 75-year-old man, who died July
28, was Lincoln’s first and only heat
related death in a heatwave that
claimed hundreds of lives nationwide.
Herman Kehm was found dead in
his Lincoln trailer around 7 p.m.
Police officers at the scene reported
the trailer’s thermostat at 110
degrees. Lincoln Police Department
Public Information Officer Katherine
Finnell said Kehm’s core body tem
perature was 105 degrees when offi
cers arrived.
Kehm’s air conditioner had appar
ently stopped working the day before.
Former NU player arrested
three times during summer
Former Nebraska linebacker
Leroy Etienne was arrested three
times this summer on charges includ
ing burglary and disturbing the peace.
According to police, on June 21,
Etienne received $5 and a ride from a
32-year-old man to a home at 15th
and F streets. After leaving the car,
Etienne grabbed the car keys from
the 32-year-old’s hand and drove off
in his 1994 green Oldsmobile Cutlass
Supreme, police said. Etienne was
arrested a short time later and
charged with robbery.
On July 17, police said they
caught Etienne removing a window
air conditioner from an apartment at
1538 G St. He was arrested for
attempted burglary.
Etienne was arrested Aug. 10 after
he allegedly entered a home at 611 S.
20th St. and took a wallet and a bottle
of wine. Police arrested him a short
time later with the aid of a police dog.
Etienne was a UNL four-time let
ter winner between 1985 and 1988.
He played briefly in the NFL for the
San Francisco 49ers.
Argument led to spraying
of house with pesticide
After a heated argument with his
neighbor, pesticide professional
Friedhelm Freytag, 530 S. 38th St.,
sprayed his neighbors’ home and dri
veway with about forty gallons of
commercial pesticide on July 10,
police said.
Apparently angry over the fire
works his neighbor was firing near
their homes, Freytag mixed 20 gal
lons of malathion with an equal
amount of water before using a pow
erful hose to spray the mixture over
his neighbor’s house, police said.
Commonly used against a variety
of insects, malathion’s recommended
dilution ranges from a teaspoon to a
tablespoon per gallon of water.
Eight people left the area suffer
ing from symptoms of chemical poi
soning such as vomiting, shortness of
breath and chest pains.
Freytag was cited for creating a pub
lic health hazard and is awaiting trial.
Cemetery vandals cause
$250,000 in damages
Vandals struck Wyuka Cemetery,
3600 O St., Aug. 4, causing an esti
mated $250,000 in damages.
No arrests have been made.
Thirty-nine monuments were
damaged in the incident. Wyuka
spokesman Todd TerMaat said the
vandals appeared to have targeted a
historic section of the cemetery.
TerMaat said two angel statues,
one of which looked over former
Nebraska Gov. Samuel McKelvie’s
grave, were “severely damaged,” and
the remains of one were scattered
over a wide area.
A $5,000 reward for information
leading to the arrest of individuals
involved has been posted.
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Four men await trial
for Pickinpaugh murder
The four Lincoln men charged
with crimes relating to the February
murder of 17-year-old Brandon
Pickinpaugh are awaiting trial in
Lincoln.
Derek Graves, Jeremy Kurtzer
and Jedidiah Ngirchoimei are
charged with Pickinpaugh’s murder.
Another Lincoln man, Dennis
Sciscoe, was arrested for concealing
evidence relating to the crime.
All four pleaded not guilty to
their individual charges.
Pickinpaugh’s body was found
Feb. 19 in die McDonald’s parking lot
in Van Dorn Plaza at 48™ and Van
Dorn streets. The Southeast High
School student was shot in the head.
Choma awaits trial
for Higgins murder
Another Lincoln man, Kenneth
Choma, also awaits trial after being
charged with killing David Higgins
April 5.
Choma pleaded not guilty in May.
Higgins was shot in the groin
after struggling with Choma over a
gun in front of Higgins’ home.
Higgins was hospitalized in critical
condition and died of his wounds
three days later.
His death changed the charge
against Choma from felony use of a
firearm to manslaughter.
Depositions in progress
for man accused of murder
Depositions are in progress in the
murder trial of Dat Nguyen, accused
of killing Betty Bich Tran,. 34, on
April 12. Nguyen pleaded not guilty
to the charge.
A coworker of Nguyen, Tran was
found strangled in her Lincoln apart
ment. ■
She had apparently refused to
have sex with Nguyen. The two
worked together at Farmland Foods
in Crete.
Compiled by senior staff writer
Jake Bleed
press release said.
The girls made their allegations
against Wiggins and Brown July 29th.
Wiggins? accompanied by his
lawyer, turned himself in to the
Sheriff’s office Friday. Brown was
arrested later the same day at his
home.
If convicted, Wiggins faces up to
five years in prison and a $ 10,000 fine.
Nebraska Football Coach Frank
Solich suspended Wiggins from the
For additional coverage of the
Wiggins case, turn to page 13.
team indefinitely. Solich said Wiggins
will not play or practice while the inci
dent is investigated.
The suspension comes after
Wiggins won a rare sixth year of eligi
bility from the NCAA. Wiggins
shared the role of starting wingback
last year with Lance Brown. '
Currently a graduate student at
UNL, Wiggins graduated last year
with a degree in family and consumer
sciences.
Wiggins left Lancaster County Jail
Friday after posting a $1,000 bail, 10
percent of $ 10,000, the amount of the
original bond. His next scheduled
court appearance is Sept. 8.
When contacted by the Daily
Nebraskan, Wiggins refused to com
ment on the arrest. _
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