Beatrice man given prison for gun and drug convictions

BEATRICE – A five-year prison sentence has been handed to a Beatrice man on weapon and drug convictions contained in two cases.

27-year-old Logan Evans was sentenced in Gage County District Court Tuesday, to serve a four-year prison term for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and a consecutive one-year prison sentence for attempted possession of methamphetamine.

District Judge Rick Schreiner also included 24 months of post-release supervision on the weapon conviction.

Evans has been in custody at a state treatment center in Lincoln.

Evans was arrested by Beatrice Police in August of 2024 after authorities investigated an incident allegedly involving discharge of a weapon in the basement of a South 3^rd Street residence.  

Police determined that Evans was in possession of a nine-millimeter handgun and was prohibited from having the weapon because of a felony conviction in Gage County from February of 2021.

Evans previously served a prison term from Jefferson County, for Attempted Accessory to second-degree murder, along with other counts.  He was discharged from the more than three-year state prison term, in November, of 2023. 

Evans had been arrested in July of 2019 by the Nebraska State Patrol, suspected of involvement in the killing of Marc Jarrell of Lincoln….whose body was found along a county road south of Endicott….near Fairbury. 

Authorities had been investigating a reported homicide at Crystal Springs Campground, outside of Fairbury.