Former Dodge County Attorney Oliver Glass is headed to prison.
Glass was sentenced in federal court Friday for cyberstalking. He was sentenced to nine months in prison for conspiracy to commit deprivation of rights under color of law. He will also have one year of supervised release and must pay a $3,000 fine.
Glass was appointed as the Dodge County Attorney in 2011 and was again elected in 2014 and 2018. In 2020, Glass’ wife filed for divorce and on March 6, 2020, Glass learned that his wife had been dating an unnamed man.
From around March 6, 2020, until about Dec. 22, 2020, Glass planned with other unnamed individuals to deprive the victim of his rights, specifically, his right against unreasonable search and seizure protected by the Fourth Amendment by conspiring to unlawfully stop or arrest the man.
Glass and others used their restricted access to the Nebraska Criminal Justice Information System (NCJIS) to gain information about the man. A supervisor in the Fremont Police Department told other officers that the man was dating Glass’ wife and to be on the lookout for him. The supervisor gave the officers the man’s information, vehicle description, and license plate number.
An officer within the Dodge County law enforcement community, while acting as a private investigator, used his law enforcement credentials to gain access of the victim’s criminal history that was not publicly available. Investigators said law enforcement officials would drive by the victim’s house looking for him without legal justification.
Chief Judge Robert Rossiter Jr., during the sentencing, said that Glass breached the public’s trust and broke the oaths he swore to uphold.
