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Man Who Impersonated LPS High School Student Pleads Guilty

By Chase Porter Jul 25, 2024 | 4:26 PM

The Lincoln man arrested in 2023 for impersonating an LPS high school student for 54 days pled guilty in court on Thursday.

27-year-old Zachary Scheich pled no contest to charges of child enticement with electronic communication, generation of child pornography – age 19 or over, two counts of first degree sexual assault and attempted first degree sexual assault.

KLIN media partner 10/11 Now reports Scheich now faces 8 to 220 years in prison. As a part of a plea deal, Scheich had nine felony charges reduced to five. He will be sentenced on September 11.

Scheich went by the name “Zak Hess” and posed as a high school student “at Northwest High School during the first semester and transferred to Southeast High School during the second semester, all during the 2022-2023 school year,” said LPD Assistant Chief Brian Jackson last year.

As apart of the police investigation, 23-year-old Angela Navarro was taking into custody, after being identified as the individual who impersonated Zachary Scheich’s mother, to register him for classes.