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McCook man sentenced in Furnas County
BEAVER CITY, Nebraska -- A 42-year-old McCook, Nebraska, man will serve up to 40 months of probation and possibly more jail time for his reactions to police chasing him after they suspected he was trying to shoot his ex-wife and kids in July 2011.
In Furnas County District Court in Beaver City Wednesday, Bryan Addington of McCook pleaded no contest to a Class 3A felony charge of assault on an officer in the third degree and to misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, operating a motor vehicle to avoid arrest and obstructing a peace officer.
Preliminary charges of terrorist threats, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, first-degree criminal trespass and willful reckless driving were dropped.
Addington was arrested and jailed on July 26 after he allegedly positioned a loaded 7 mm rifle against a vehicle in the driveway of a neighbor's house, about 100 yards from his ex-wife's home north of Cambridge.
That day, about 6 a.m., a Furnas County deputy met Addington on a county road north of Cambridge after sheriff's officers were tipped off by a third party that Addington had multiple weapons and had gone to Cambridge to kill his ex-wife and kids. According to a press release from the sheriff's office that day, Addington tried to hit the deputy's car head-on and then fled into Cambridge. After a failed attempt by the deputy to stop Addington in a cul-de-sac in Cambridge, Addington stopped near the Cross Creek Golf Course and surrendered to the deputy without further incident.
Addington's ex-wife and children were not home at the time of the incident. Addington was reportedly living in his camper in McCook.
Addington told Judge Anne Paine during a court appearance Aug. 22 that there had been "5-6 incidents of (marital) affairs," and that he and his ex-wife "have been getting mad at the same stupid stuff," but that he's never hurt anyone.
Addington has been in jail in Beaver City, held on a $100,000 bond that Judge Paine declined to reduce because of the seriousness of the charges and after Patterson told her that Addington expressed an interest in leaving the country with his pastor on a missions trip.
Addington was sentenced to serve:
Count 1, assault of an officer, 40 months intensive supervision probation; 180 days in jail at the end of probation could be waived by the court.
Count 2, driving under the influence of alcohol, 12 months probation, $500 fine, one year revocation of his driver's license; ordered to serve 60 days in jail at the beginning of probation.
Count 3, operating a motor vehicle to avoid arrest, 24 months probation; ordered to serve 90 days at the beginning of probation.
Count 4, obstruction of a peace officer, 24 months probation; 90 days in jail at the end of probation could be waived by the court.
Patterson said the probation is to be served concurrently, and the jail time consecutively. Time that Addington has already served in jail was applied to the jail time ordered at the beginning of probation, he said.
Addington is expected to be released from jail today.