(Neb.)-Ex-Police Chief Pleads Not Guilty To Sex Assault

By: Roxie Graham-Marski Posted at: 02/14/2013 07:38 AM

Photo: Mark Lindburg (Courtesy northplattepost.com)

     ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) - Former Hemingford Police Chief Mark Lindburg has pleaded not guilty charges that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl.
 
     Fifty-two-year-old Mark Lindburg entered the pleas in Box Butte County District Court on Wednesday morning. Lindburg was arrested earlier this month. He is charged with first-degree sexual assault and child abuse.
 
     Lindburg served as Hemingford's police chief from November 2006 until he resigned without explanation in November 2011.
 
     He also worked as a Box Butte County Deputy Sheriff for seven years and helped start a youth center in Hemingford in 2008.
 
     Lindburg is in jail on $100,000 bail. His trial is set for April.

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