BEATRICE – A 24-year-old Beatrice man has been ordered to serve five-to-seven years in state prison for two convictions of delivering a controlled substance.  Justin Kipf was also sentenced to a concurrent one-year term for negligent child abuse, in a Gage County District Court sentencing.   The drug involved was marijuana.  Kipf received credit from Judge Rick Schreiner for 174 days spent in custody. 

Kipf’s arrest by Beatrice Police involved the controlled purchase of THC extract, July 23rd and July 25th, 2016…using a confidential informant.  The purchases were made at a house in the twelve hundred block of Ella Street.  Authorities said two children were present during one of the transactions.

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21-year-old Jennifer Rainey, of Blue Springs, was sentenced to a six-to-eight-year prison term for aiding and abetting a burglary.    She received credit for 392 days spent in jail.  She was charged in the December, 2016 burglary of a rural home along South 51st Road, in Gage County.  Law officers say she was the driver of a getaway car and acted as a lookout, as two men broke into the home, stealing about $1,000 of items.  Authorities say Rainey had a two-way radio with her to warn the men about anyone approaching.

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A 26-year-old Blue Springs man has been sentenced to three-to-five years in prison for attempted delivery of Oxycontin.   Christopher Simpson receives credit for two days spent in jail.   His arrest stemmed from a controlled buy of five Oxycontin pills in September, 2018….at Robertson Park, 9th and High…where Beatrice Police officers said children were playing.

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In another case, a 26-year-old Panama, Nebraska woman, formerly of Wymore… has been sentenced to a four-year term of probation for delivery of methamphetamine and drug possession.

Sharla Steelman was sentenced Thursday, in Gage County District Court.  She had pleaded no contest to both counts.  As part of her probation, she will be allowed to be under supervision in either Nebraska or Oklahoma. 

Her arrest involved the controlled purchase of 3.9 grams of meth in July, 2018…..part of a Beatrice Police investigation that involved use of a confidential informant.  The transaction was within 460 feet of the Educational Service Unit Number Five, but a charge of distributing drugs within a school zone was reduced.