ELWOOD, Neb. — Matthew Hansen, one of three men arrested in an assault at a mobile home court near Johnson Lake last July, was sentenced Wednesday in Gosper County District Court to prison.
Hansen, 21, of Caon City, Colo., was sentenced to 1 1/2 to two years in prison on a charge of attempted first-degree assault, a Class III felony.
He was given credit for 144 days spent in jail in Grand Island where he was being held for prosecution by Adams County.
Hansen earlier pleaded guilty to the assault of Billy Rios, a resident of the trailer court. Rios suffered fractures of the head and face and a knife wound to the back of his neck that was inflicted by one of two other men.
Rios was the live-in boyfriend of Alicia Haggestad, Hansen's sister. According to Gosper County Sheriff Dennis Ocken, statements by the three men said Haggestad complained that Rios had been beating her and her children.
At a party in a cabin in Johnson Lake's North Cove, Haggestad asked that Rios be taken care of. The three men went to Rios's trailer and assaulted him.
Brothers Jeremiah Hilderbrand, 28, and Anthony Hilderbrand, 26, both of the York area, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in plea-bargain deals. They each were credited with 89 days in jail and were released following their court hearings.
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