Omaha man charged with beating Upland woman

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - An Omaha man is a suspect in a brutal beating earlier this week in Upland.

Robert Wigget, 34, is charged in Franklin County with first-degree assault, felony theft and being a habitual criminal. Court documents indicate a woman accused him of beating her Tuesday. The woman suffered cuts and bruises to her face and was transferred to CHI-Good Samaritan hospital in Kearney. She had been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

On Wednesday, Hastings police spotted him. When they tried to arrest him he ran into a residence in the 700 block of Boston Avenue. Court records indicate he locked himself in a bathroom, but eventually surrendered to police. He is charged in Adams County for Obstructing a Police Officer.

On Friday morning, an Adams County judge scheduled a hearing for next month and ordered him held on $2,500 bond.