A Lincoln man is accused of breaking into a 77-year-old Seward County woman's home, sexually assaulting her and ransacking her home before stealing her SUV, according to the Seward County Sheriff.
Chad Drewes, 29, was arrested and is being held in Lincoln.Â
At 6 a.m. Saturday, deputies met with the woman at a neighbor's house, Joe Yocum said in a news release.
The woman told deputies a man forced his way into her home between Goehner and Utica about 10:30 Friday night, Yocum said.
She said the man sexually and physically assaulted her before shutting her in a bathroom of the home while he ransacked it for several hours, Yocum said.
He then left the scene in the woman's SUV, the sheriff said.
Investigators found a rental car police believe the man drove to the woman's home. It was later reported stolen from Lincoln.
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Deputies working with Lincoln police got information from OnStar that the woman's stolen SUV was near Ninth and Court streets in Lincoln.
Police saw a man near it who matched the description the woman gave and contacted Drewes, Yocum said. Drewes had some of the stolen jewelry, prescription pills and other things taken from the woman's home in his possession, the sheriff said in the news release.
Officers arrested Drewes on suspicion of first-degree sexual assault, burglary, first-degree false imprisonment, strangulation, first-degree assault, criminal mischief and unauthorized use of a propelled motor vehicle, the release said.
Additional charges are pending in Lincoln.
Drewes had not been charged as of Monday afternoon and remained in the custody of the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center in Lincoln, where he was taken out of concern he would hurt himself, Chief Deputy Seward County Sheriff Daniel Hejl said.
Drewes appeared in a Seward County courtroom Monday where his bond was set at $750,000, Hejl said.