A 30-year-old Lincoln man who led a Lancaster County Sheriff's deputy on a high-speed chase with his wife and 10-week-old daughter along got probation and jail time Monday.
"You took a grain of sand and turned it into Mount Everest," Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson told Calvin Forget.
The chase started Sept. 28, 2014, shortly after 9 a.m. when a sheriff’s deputy tried to pull over Forget in a Ford F-150 near 82nd Street and Panama Road for an obstructed license plate.
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Forget took off toward Olive Creek Road, then bailed and tried to escape. He was caught on foot in Otoe County and later pleaded no contest to operating a motor vehicle to avoid arrest, a felony, and misdemeanor child abuse.
At sentencing Monday, Deputy Lancaster County Public Defender Webb Bancroft said Forget recognizes how dangerous his actions were.
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He said he is on the right medication now and unlikely to act so rashly.
Then Nelson, calling his actions irresponsible and reckless, sentenced him to jail for 195 days, time served with credit, and three years of probation. She also revoked his license for two years.
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