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Tyler Huddleston
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A 21-year-old North Platte man has been sentenced to 8-20 years in the state penitentiary for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Tyler Huddleston pled no contest the charge, after a DNA test in October revealed that he was the father of the victim’s child. Huddleston initially faced burglary and weapons charges too, but those charges were dropped in exchange for the plea to sexual assault. District Judge John Murphy sentenced Huddleston Monday to 8-20 years, with credit for 287 days served. North Platte police learned of the assault in April 2009, when the victim told her parents she had been raped in January. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office made the arrest.
Erdman: Restitution, three years probation Tyson Erdman will serve up to 180 days in jail plus three years probation for attempted first-degree assault of a North Platte man in 2008. Erdman will also pay nearly $20,000 in restitution to Jason May, the man he allegedly assaulted. Erdman was sentenced Monday He was initially charged with first-degree assault but after more than a year of court delays, including settlement discussions between the parties, Erdman pleaded no contest to attempted assault. His attorney unsuccessfully argued that the court waive the restitution.
Probation plus 180 days Daniel Schultz was sentenced to three years probation plus 180 days in jail and 90 days on an electronic monitor. Schultz, 18, was charged with being one of four men involved in a pair of burglaries in August involving shop equipment and an ATV. Another man charged in the case, Robin Dennis, will be sentenced April 19. A sheriff’s deputy arrested Dennis, 26, 2300 E. Philip, Schultz, 18, 508 E. Tenth, and David Lee Eyten, 24, 2413 W. 15th. Schultz and the two other men were arrested while attempting to remove stolen property. A deputy responded to a call three miles south of East State Farm Road on old Highway 83. The caller reported that items had been stolen from his machine shop. The deputy immediately noticed tracks leading from the shop. The person who reported the incident told the deputy that his ATV had been stolen a week before. The deputy followed the tracks and found three ATVs hidden in a cedar grove. The sheriff said his deputy reported that the ATVs were covered in brush to disguise them. The deputy returned to the shed to inventory the stolen items, which included two air compressors, a grease gun, electric fence wire and related equipment, and several tools. When the deputy returned to the cedar grove, he discovered a white Dodge truck in the process of loading the ATVs onto a trailer. A fourth man, David L. Smith, was arrested two days later.
Flies Wade R. “Tulsa” Flies, 29, was sentenced to three years probation and fined $400. Flies was initially charged with assaulting an officer after he scuffled with a Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy March 11. Flies' license was suspended for 60 days. Deputy Dustin Achenbach testified at Flies’ preliminary hearing that he had to use his Tazer twice to get Flies to comply.
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