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Arrest made in Tecumseh NE car jacking / armed robbery

By John Nixon

07/03/2024

(KLZA)-- A suspect has been arrested in connection to an car jacking / armed robbery that occurred in the parking lot of the U-Stop store in Tecumseh, Nebraska early Monday morning.

Johnson County Attorney Ben Beethe said in a release Wednesday afternoon that Danger Cabellero was arrested in Del City, Oklahoma later Monday.

Shortly before 7:00 Monday morning, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office was called regarding an armed robbery at the U-Stop in Tecumseh.

A man had been picked up by a good Samaritan east of Tecumseh on Highway 136 where a vehicle was broken down. The man was given a ride into Tecumseh. At that point, the man produced a firearm and demanded the vehicle and and cell phone from the good Samaritan.

The man took the car and the cell phone, left the scene and dumped the cell phone a short distance from the U-Stop and fled. The broken down vehicle where the man was picked up turned out to have been stolen in an alleged armed robbery the previous night in Platte City, Missouri.

The good Samaritan's stolen vehicle was stopped by the Del City, Oklahoma Police Department and the driver taken into custody.

The investigation involving the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, Nebraska State Patrol, Nemaha County Sheriff's Office, Platte County, Missouri Sheriff's Office, the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department and the Del City, Oklahoma Police Department continues.

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