Woman accused of being getaway driver after assault in Lincoln alley

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — An Omaha woman has been arrested in connection with an assault in a Lincoln alley that put a man in the hospital.

Breanna Weiss, 30, was booked into the Lancaster County Jail on Tuesday and appeared in court Wednesday.

She is charged with accessory to first-degree assault.

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On April 27, court documents say officers found a 43-year-old man lying in a pool of blood in an alley near 17th and Washington streets.

He was bleeding from several cuts to his head and was taken to a hospital, where doctors said he suffered multiple facial and jaw fractures.

The victim had to have a tracheostomy, a tube inserted into the neck, to help him breathe.

Investigators determined that the man was attacked during a drug robbery.

An arrest affidavit says 40-year-old Richard Schaub met up with the victim in the alley.

Then, as the victim was trying to leave, an SUV pulled up and blocked his way out.

Police said Weiss was driving that vehicle.

The affidavit says her passenger, 46-year-old Myron Sison, got out and walked to the victim’s vehicle.

Police said Sison then repeatedly punched the victim, who ended up on the ground.

Schaub and Sison punched and kicked the man over and over, according to the affidavit, and Schaub hit him in the head with a pistol.

During the assault, Weiss could hear the victim screaming, the affidavit says.

Sison got back into Weiss’ vehicle and told her to drive out of Lincoln, police said, so she drove them to her home in Omaha.

The Lincoln Police Department said an SUV registered to Weiss was captured on surveillance video in the alley.

Weiss is due back in court on Sept. 17.