YORK — A York man who was hit by a train and died Tuesday had failed to appear in court half an hour earlier, court records indicate.
On Tuesday morning, an arrest warrant was issued for Travis J. Stoltenberg, 44, who failed to appear for his 9 a.m. status hearing in District Court for a case involving charges of first-degree assault with a prior offense and third-degree sexual assault of a child with a prior offense.
At 9:30 a.m., York Fire and Rescue and the York County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to the railroad crossing at Road K, just west of York, on the report of a train/vehicle collision.
Stoltenberg was found dead at the scene.
Authorities said that although his vehicle was on the railroad tracks, Stoltenberg was standing on the tracks when he was struck by a northbound train.
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A jury trial date was approaching for Stoltenberg, but the case will now be closed.
If he had been convicted, he would have been facing a possible maximum sentence of 20 years to life for the first-degree assault charge and a maximum of five to 50 years for the third-degree sexual assault of a child charge.
Those charges were filed last year. According to court documents, Stoltenberg was already a registered sex offender after being sentenced in 2001 for first-degree sexual assault in Cheyenne County.
The latest case was a result of an investigation by the York Police Department. The affidavit said police received information regarding an alleged sexual assault of a 6-year-old child.
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