LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — Officer Ross Bartlett was only 54 when he was killed during a traffic stop on Highway 77 just south of Ceresco in April 2024.
On Thursday, nearly two years later, his widow sat in the front row of a Lancaster County Courthouse, holding the wedding ring she wears on a necklace, listening to the sentence read out for the man who was on his cell phone and caused Bartlett’s death.
Tony Pierce, now 51, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and his license was revoked for two years. He pleaded no contest to felony motor vehicle homicide in October…