TORRINGTON – A Goshen County man is in custody Sunday in connection with a series of what officials described as “suspicious” activities in Scotts Bluff County, Neb.
According to a press release from Scotts Bluff County Sheriff Mark Overman, Nathaniel Dean Mundt was arrested Saturday in Goshen County. Mundt was identified as the individual who allegedly knocked on the door of a rural home near Morrill on Aug. 7. A woman who answered the door reported the man said a dog had been hit by a car and ran into a cornfield. He asked her to help him find the dog, but the woman said she locked the door and refused to help, at which point the man left.
This was just the latest in what Overman said were several, similar reports, including a separate incident July 30 near Gering.
A woman reported she refused to answer the door when a man knocked at her door. When she didn’t answer, the man reportedly went to the rear of the home at tried to enter through a window, damaging the mechanism and a screen in the process, according to the press release.
The man immediately left when the woman screamed, the release said.
The same man was identified on security camera video entering the porch of another home on July 30. An arrest warrant for Mundt was issues Saturday.
In the release, Overman said his office has received multiple reports of similar incidents from Scotts Bluff and Goshen counties, as well as several discussion threads on social media talking about similar occurrences.
As of Sunday, Mundt remained in custody without bail in Goshen County on a probation and parole arrest and hold order, according to the Goshen County Sheriff’s website.
