Chance Ragle was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison Monday in Lincoln County District Court, after he was convicted of repeated assaults.
Ragle violently assaulted a North Platte woman on April 13. The victim ended up in the emergency room, traumatized with bruises all over her body, according to the arrest record.
He was initially charged with sexual assault, terroristic threats, strangulation and domestic assault.
On May 4, investigators said Ragle called a mutual acquaintance from the jail to try to convince the victim to retract the statements.
That effort earned him a charge of tampering with a witness.
The initial assault charges narrowed to third-degree domestic assault, repeat offense, as the case progressed. In a plea agreement, Ragle pled no contest on July 10 to the lesser charges.
In January 2018, Ragle led sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase on rural roads east of Lake Maloney, finally stopping a mile or so after his tires blew out on stop spikes that had been deployed.
Earlier that same day, a police officer pulled him over in North Platte and talked to him. Ragle argued and then he tried to drive away with the officer hanging on the side of his vehicle. He drove to the other side of the street and the officer fell off with only minor injuries. Ragle drove off and evaded law officers for most of the afternoon.
Six hours later, he was found near Lake Maloney and finally arrested.
At the time, Ragle had quite a record of previous arrests. He had only been out of jail for a few days, after spending 83 days behind bars for assault.
He’s been in jail since his arrest on April 13.
On Monday, he was sentenced to 30 months in state prison, plus 18 months of supervision after he gets out.
The prison sentence will be shortened by the 222 days (7.5 months) that he’s been incarcerated awaiting the resolution of his case, plus any “good time” that he accumulates without causing trouble at the prison. Lincoln County District Judge Michael Piccolo issued the sentence.
Kindle
In other sentencings, Jerrita Kindle aka Jerrita Running Enemy was ordered to spend 5-8 years in the Nebraska Women’s Correctional Center for meth distribution.
Kindle was arrested May 11 in the 1100 block of E. Fifth along with Mark Ramos. Police found about 26 grams of meth along with a digital scale and unused baggies in a basement room of their home.
Kindle, 38, was convicted of meth distribution on Sept. 11. She pled guilty to the charge.
The court denied her request to enter a 60-day treatment program in Lincoln on Nov. 13.
The couple were arrested during an intense 10 days of police arrests in North Platte in early May. During that time, 15 suspects were charged with meth possession and/or distribution.
The case against Ramos continues to work its way through the court. He is scheduled to appear at district court a hearing on Dec. 4.
Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee of North Platte was sentenced to two years of probation for possession of meth and hydrocodone pills.
Lincoln County District Judge Cindy Volkmer handed down the sentence.
Under the terms of the probation, she was ordered to abstain from drinking alcohol or using illegal substances. She will be subjected to random searches and tests. She was also ordered to continue counseling and pay $156 in court costs.
Lee was arrested on Dec. 28, when the car she was riding in was pulled over for failure to signal a turn.
The state trooper reportedly smelled marijuana coming from the car, which led him to search it. The driver, Martin Ramos, was cited for no drivers’ license, a traffic violation and possession of less than an ounce of pot.
The trooper found about three grams of meth and seven hydrocodone pills in a pouch in Lee’s purse, plus some small baggies and a scale, according to the arrest affidavit. Lee was initially charged with distribution of controlled substances, but that charge was reduced in a plea agreement with prosecutors.
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Barely a slap on the wrist for the crimes he’s committed.
I know right so he might spend 6 months in prison for all the the crimes he did WOW !!! Chance hardly got anything!!!
I mean 6 months come on!
Article says Ragle pled to domestic assault repeat offense but it doesn’t say what degree of domestic assault it was. Makes a huge difference in possible sentences.
Assuming it was 3rd degree domestic assault, a repeat offender would apparently get a class IIIA felony which has a MAXIMUM sentence of 3 years in prison plus 18 months post release supervision. If that’s the case, then the judge nearly gave him the max.
If it was 1st or 2nd degree domestic assault, a repeat offender would be looking at 20-50 years at the max with no minimum. If that was what he pled to then it would certainly seem like he got a slap on the wrist.
Obligatory soap box speech: Back in 2015, LB 605 took the teeth out of most of our criminal penalties so that the legislature wouldn’t have to find the money to build a new prison or risk having the federal government take over our department of corrections due to overcrowding within NDOC. More felonies getting turned into glorified misdemeanors means fewer people in prison. They absolutely sold out our safety for their own political convenience. Our local legislator could focus on restoring our criminal code, thus cleaning out the crack heads and actually keeping all of us safe, but he’s busy giving tens of millions to non-profits to build a kids’ camp, walking in parades and ensuring we keep 2 man train crews.