The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Department says a second man they believe robbed and assaulted a woman who was coming to Lincoln from Beatrice to buy a car has been arrested. Terry Wagner says 31 year old Kenneth Miles of Beatrice is facing robbery and weapons charges.
“He is the friend that the victim solicited to give her a ride to Lincoln to buy that car,” Wagner says. ” Miles was in Omaha and we arrested him about 3:00 yesterday afternoon.”
Wagner believes Miles and Thomas Angell robbed the woman of $10,000 cash after she fell asleep in the backseat near Roca. She was beaten, robbed and left on the side of the road. He says both men fired shots near the woman to scare her.
Wagner says $3,000 was found when they arrested Angell. The other $7,000 has yet to be recovered.