the Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 7:00 pm
A police officer watching traffic after school let out at Lincoln High School moved closer as he saw them Tuesday. It was a fight or soon would be. He could tell.
But it wasn’t students scraping in the 21st and J area about 3:15 p.m. It was their parents.
Two mothers picking their daughters up from Lincoln High got into it over a traffic situation, Police Sgt. Don Scheinost said.
He said Teresa Zeschmann, 40, 1435 S. Ninth St., was sitting in her car talking to someone in backed up traffic when Falesia Divers, 37, 443 N.W. 14th St., grew impatient. One gestured at the other, spurring the fight, Scheinost said. Students waiting for rides watched.
It was over quickly. The officer got to them as Zeschmann was picking up her glasses from the ground. Scheinost said she had blood on her left cheek and Divers was screaming. He said their daughters were yelling at each other, too.
The officer separated the women, sending each to her car, and ticketed both on suspicion of disturbing the peace by fighting.
Police say stepfather gave 15-year-old vodka
Police say a 33-year-old Lincoln man took his stepdaughter along when he went drinking and driving Tuesday night.
Sgt. Don Scheinost said while an officer was taking a report about a man yelling profanities and driving erratically in the 2900 block of Northwest First Street about 10:15 p.m. he heard the vehicle breaking, then accelerating, nearby. Scheinost said the officer stopped Jeffery Lowe’s pickup and found him behind the wheel, intoxicated. He arrested him for driving while intoxicated.
He ended up being booked on suspicion of a felony child abuse charge, too, after police talked with the 15-year-old girl with him, his stepdaughter. Police learned Lowe had a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey in the pickup when he picked her up. After she told him she had a bad day, he asked if she wanted something to drink. She told him she’d drink vodka and lemonade — so he allegedly bought some for her.
Apartments evacuated by gas leak
A couple dozen apartment residents had to be evacuated after one of them noticed an odor and called 911.
Firefighters went out to 3400 Carnelian St., east of Tierra Park, and smelled the same odor when they arrived. Through atmosphere monitors, they found it was natural gas.
Deputy Chief Pat Borer said they evacuated the building so no one was in danger of the gas igniting. The gas was turned off at the meter and they opened windows and doors and put fans up to force the gas out of the building. About an hour later, the 20 to 30 residents were able to go back inside.
41-year-old gets $500 fine for exposing himself
A Lincoln man who exposed himself to a woman along a bike trail June 17 and later was identified because of the two Corgi dogs he was walking has been sentenced to pay a fine.
Police arrested Andrew D. Carter, 41, of 5247 Tipperary Trail three weeks after he’d walked out from behind the bushes, naked, not far from Peterson Park.
Tuesday, he was ordered to pay a $500 fine.