Wiggins waives hearing
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
Suspended Nebraska wingback
Shevin Wiggins waived his prelimi
nary hearing in Nebraska County
District Court on Wednesday.
Lancaster County Sheriff’s
deputies arrested Wiggins, 24, and
charged him with sexual assault of a
child Aug. 20.
He is slated to appear in Lancaster
County District Court Sept. 22.
Wiggins and 22-year-old Floyd
Brown are accused of making sexual
contact with a 14-year-old girl living
on East Pioneers Boulevard late July
25 or early July 26, court records said
The 14-year-old told sheriff’s
deputies Wiggins removed her pants
and shirt and made contact with her
breasts and vaginal area, court records
said.
Deputies issued a warrant for
Wiggins’ arrest after a three-week
investigation. Wiggins, accompanied
by lawyer Terry Dougherty, turned
himself in to the Lancaster County Jail
and posted 10 percent of a $J 0,000
bond.
Brown was charged with two
counts of sexual assault of a child, a
Class El felony.
If convicted Wiggins faces up to
five years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
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date prompts security
■ Wyuka Cemetery has
hired additional patrollers
to prevent graveyard
problems.
ByEricRineer
Staff writer
Today’s unusual date, 9^9-99, is
leaving at least one local graveyard
preparing for the unknown.
Security will be on guard tonight at
Wyuka Cemetery and Mausoleum,
! 3600 O St., and employees will keep
I their eyes open for any occult-related
practices taking place in die cemetery.
“Any time you have nines across the
> boards, or a day that falls within an
[ unusual date sequence, unusual activi
ties can be carried out in cemeteries,”
said Todd TerMaat, Wyuka spokesman.
“Typically, a cult-type realm of peo
| pie will be active in these activities, or
carry out whatever they do here in
cemeteries,” he said.
Asitfe from hiring additional
patrollers, volunteers will help work the
■ graveyard shift at the cemetery, TerMaat
I >said.
John Becker, assistant chief of
police, said the Lincoln Police
Department would also be keeping
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watch for any peculiar activities this
evening.
“The LPD has now been alerted
apd will take precaution,” Becker said.
However, he said, no particular
patrols would be planned for 9-9-99.
“There aren’t enough officers to
act on that,” Becker said. “The gather
ings aren’t against the law, but maybe
some of the activities that come about
will be.”
Becker said the extra security at
' Wyuka cemetery may have stemmed
from a vandalism incident that
occurred last month.
Thirty-nine monuments and two
Italian angel statuettes were toppled in
Wyuka’s graveyard in August. Damages
were estimated at $250,000.
'i:' Despite the incident, other Lincoln
cemeteries say they won’t be doing any
thing out of the ordinary tonight or any
other night.
Gerry Trout, manager at Calvary
Cemetery and Mausoleum,' 145 S. 40th
St, said she wasn’t aware of any sym
bolical meaning for 9-9-99.
However, she said, her staff would
take some minor precautions.
“We should probably turn on some
extra lights, or check it out a few times
during the night” Trout said
Linda Harris, a high priestess in a
Wiccan group, said 9-9-99 had no paral
lels to death or destruction in her nature
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for this is probably
going to be in
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Linda Harris
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based religion.
“There’s nothing negative about it at
all,” said Harris, a member of the chal
ice circle group. “The biggest relevance
for this is probably going to be in com
puters, or things that are digital.”
Some have said the succession of
nines could be a signal to computers to
shut down.
Computer shops contacted by the
Daily Nebraskan had not heard of this
problem.
Becker said he also believed 9-9-99
pertained more toward computer glitch
es, rather than satanic inferences.
“I thought it was linked more
toward a cyber event - for computer
systems and old software that shut down
the software programs,” he said.
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