Bail set in hit-and-run case

Omaha police have arrested a 24-year-old woman in connection with Monday's fatal hit-and-run crash at 42nd and Q Streets.

Police said Flor Campos was neither the driver nor a passenger in the pickup that hit a car driven by 27-year-old Ronald E. Rydberg. According to police reports, Campos drove the pickup's driver from Omaha to a Kansas City, Mo., bus station so the pickup driver and his brother could flee to Mexico.

The two people who left the scene of the accident had not yet been found.

Campos was in court Wednesday and was charged with being accessory to a felony. A judge placed her bail at $50,000. She must pay $5,000 - or 10 percent - to be released from jail.

Rydberg's funeral will be held 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Holy Ghost Catholic Church, 5219 S. 53rd St. Visitation with the family will be from 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today at Korisko Larkin Staskiewicz Funeral Home, 5108 F St. A wake service will be at 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

Rydberg was preceded in death by his mother, Joan; he has five siblings.

Anyone with information about the crash is urged to contact the Accident Investigation Squad at 444-5627. Crime Stoppers can be contacted anonymously by calling 444-7867 (STOP), online at www.omaha- crimestoppers.net, or by texting “OPD” and the tip to CRIMES (274637).

World-Herald staff writers Judith Nygren and Juan Perez Jr. contributed to this report.

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444-1279, jason.kuiper@owh.com