Beatrice 6 seek to garnish wages, seize property of Gage County officers [View all]

Last week, one of six people wrongly convicted of killing a Beatrice woman in 1985 asked the state to garnish the wages of two Gage County sheriff’s deputies who helped put them behind bars.

James Dean, one of the so-called Beatrice 6, also is asking the U.S. Marshals Service to seize property from Deputy Burdette Searcey and Reserve Deputy Wayne Price.

Searcey, 68, retired from the Sheriff's Office on Wednesday.

Reached by phone Wednesday night, he said he has been thinking about retiring for two or three months, adding the decision had nothing to do with the Beatrice 6 case or the recent request that his wages be garnished.

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