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Suspicious Vehicle Leads to Arrest

DATE & TIME: 08-31-2021 @ 7:49 am

LOCATION: Rural Firth (Gage County), Nebraska

OFFENSE: Possession of a Controlled Substance (Methamphetamine)

               Possession of a Controlled Substance (Psilocybin Mushrooms)

               Possession With the Intent to Distribute

               Possession of Drug Money

               Possession of Marijuana

CASE #: 2021-3564

On Tuesday, August 31, 2021, at 7:49 am, a citizen reported a suspicious vehicle, a white van, on a county road in Gage County near Firth, Nebraska.  The responding deputy found a vehicle with Oklahoma license plates stopped in the northbound lanes of the county road. The van was found to be a rental vehicle from Budget Truck Rentals.

The vehicle was towed for being a road hazard, however illicit substances and over $1,100.00 in cash were discovered inside the vehicle while preparing the van to be towed. While the tow truck was en route to the sheriff’s office with the vehicle, the tow truck driver received a phone call inquiring about the vehicle. He informed the Gage County deputy and investigator of the phone call and the caller was asked to come to the tow lot in Beatrice.

When the person who rented the van arrived at the tow lot, an investigator with the Gage County Sheriff’s Office met her in the tow lot. She initially stated she had rented the van and had given the van to a male she had never met before to drive it to Saint Joseph, Missouri where she was hoping to work in a health care related job.

As the investigation proceeded, it was determined the passenger in her vehicle, 35-year-old Kyle Geoffrey Ashmore of Geneva, Nebraska, had a warrant from the United States Marshal’s Service in Council Bluffs, Iowa for a firearms charge.

Further investigation tied Ashmore to the van and drugs that were recovered in this case. He was taken to the Gage County Detention Center and booked on the US Marshal’s Service warrant and charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance (Methamphetamine and Psilocybin Mushrooms), Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver, Possession of Drug Money, and Possession of Marijuana and Intent to Deliver Marijuana.

Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson #903

Sergeant T. Hanson #90310

Deputy M. Hager #9038

Deputy B. Juracek #9039

Deputy S. Behrens #90317

Investigator M. Ernst #90315