NSP SWAT team assists local officers with Superior arrest

To the unsuspecting, Sunday morning looked like an auction day in East Superior. There were people out in the yards and the streets were clogged with vehicles. But look closer, it wasn't a normal Sunday morning in a rural community.

The vehicles were emblazed with words like "State Trooper" or "Sheriff." And many of the people were wearing vests but the blaze orange vests we associate with the hunter safety.

They were hunters, all right, but their desired prey was not a trophy buck deer. The vehicles belonged to officers associated with the Nuckolls County Sheriff's Department, the Superior Police Department and the Nebraska State Patrol. Other drivers were denied access to the area. Some of the officers converging on the large house which once had served as a nursing home for the elderly were associated with the state patrol's SWAT team.

While the officers took up positions, a neighbor said he could hear a helicopter overhead. Unaware of what was happening down the street, he went to his computer in an attempt to identify the helicopter. The pilot had not filed a flight plan and so the craft remained unidentified.

A Nebraska State Patrol spokesman told the press on Monday morning, " A wanted subject was arrested Sunday following a standoff at a residence in Superior. The operation began with an investigation by the Nuckolls County Sheriff's Department."

Brad Baker, Nuckolls County sheriff, said the morning's action came after officers had kept the house under surveillance for two weeks. When it appeared the suspect stayed there Saturday, the patrol's assistance was requested.

As requested, the Nebraska State Patrol SWAT team helped serve an arrest warrant on an individual at the home at 224 Collett Street. The suspect, identified as Clint Younger, 38, was wanted on multiple outstanding warrants including a burglary warrant from Adams County and a warrant for failure to pay court costs in Hall County. The no-bail extradition warrant from Colorado apparently is related to a failure to appear charge.

After learning Younger may have purchased the house and was sometimes staying there, the officers began watching the house.

After obtaining a search warrant, the officers went to the house and used an amplified speaker system to repeatedly ask Younger to voluntarily leave the house. When he didn't come out, SWAT members made entry into the home where they made contact with Younger and a female subject. Both were taken into custody without further incident.

Younger has been lodged in the Adams County Jail. The female, identified as Stacy Delamotte, 34, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and released.

The sheriff's office reported Younger was wanted on an Adams County felony warrant, a misdemeanor warrant from Hall County and a no-bond extradition warrant out of Colorado. He apparently had failed to appear as ordered in Colorado.

The large house was previously used as a parsonage and the Belden Nursing home.