Vehicle Fire

DATE & TIME: 07-06-2021 @ 5:52 am

LOCATION: South 23^rd Road / East Lilac Road and

                       South10th Road / East Lilac Road

OFFENSE: Vehicle Fire

CASE #: 2021-2627 and 2021-2628

On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at approximately 5:52 am, deputies from the Gage County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to South 23^rd Road, just south of East Lilac Road, for a vehicle on fire. A sergeant for the Gage County Sheriff’s Office that was responding to the scene located another vehicle on fire on South 10^th Road, north of East Lilac Road, about a mile west of the initially reported vehicle fire.

Beatrice Rural Fire Department and Beatrice Fire and Rescue were dispatched to both scenes and extinguished the vehicle fires. No injuries were reported in association with the vehicle fires.

A Gage County Sheriff’s Office investigator and an investigator from the Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s Office were dispatched to the scene. It was determined the vehicle had been reported stolen out of Beatrice earlier that morning. A check of residences near the scene was conducted.

The investigation of the vehicle fires was turned over to the Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s Office.

Anyone with any information related to this incident, either the theft or the vehicles being set on fire, can contact the Gage County Sheriff’s Office or Beatrice Police Department by calling Southeast Communications at 402-223-4080 or Gage County Crime Stoppers at 402-228-4343.

Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson #903

Sergeant T. Hanson #90310

Sergeant J. Patsch #9033

Deputy S. Behrens #90317

Deputy M. Hager #9038

Deputy P. Diehl. #90316