Janice Summerford faces up to 41 years for 4-year-old’s death
Janice Summerford A 30-year-old Hiawatha woman has entered an Alford guilty plea for her role in the March 2013 death of 4-year-old Mekhi Boone. Thirty-year-old Janice Summerford entered her plea in...
View ArticleWilliam Vogel is arrested in Florida
William Vogel is being sought by the Sabetha Police Department in connection with an alleged rape. Fifty-one-year-old William Lee Vogel was arrested Tuesday morning, Sept. 9, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla....
View ArticleWilliam Vogel is extradited from Florida to Nemaha County
William Vogel is being sought by the Sabetha Police Department in connection with an alleged rape. William L. Vogel Sr. has been extradited from Broward County in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and was booked...
View ArticleJanice Summerford is sentenced to 10 years for murder
Janice Summerford Thirty-year-old Janice Summerford of Hiawatha was sentenced to a little over 10 years in prison on convictions of second degree murder, felony child abuse and interference with a law...
View ArticleReceive Sheriff’s Department alerts
The Nemaha County Sheriff’s Department is now utilizing a new communications service that makes it possible to send important, valuable community information directly to residents using the latest...
View ArticleSabetha man waives preliminary hearing on child sex charge
A 21-year-old Sabetha man has waived his preliminary hearing on a charge of indecent solicitation of a child. Tex Goodpasture, who was arrested in September following a Hiawatha Police Department...
View ArticleSabetha man pleads no contest to child rape
In Nemaha County District Court on Monday, Nov. 10, William Lee Vogel waived his right to a preliminary hearing and entered a plea of no contest to rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child and...
View ArticleFairview man sentenced for sodomy charges
A 30-year-old Fairview man was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison on two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy. The sentence, which also included an order to pay $2,575.40 in court costs and fees,...
View ArticleSabetha man sentenced to 25 years for child rape
William L. Vogel Sr. was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of rape of a child under the age of 14, aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14 and kidnapping. The...
View ArticleSabetha man sentenced to 59 months for child sex charge
A 37-year-old Sabetha man has been sentenced to 59 months in prison for electronic solicitation of a child. Quintin Meyer’s request for probation was denied during his sentencing hearing on Thursday,...
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