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Fugitive Arrest, Charges in Elkhorn
Deputies captured a year-long fugitive, filed trafficking and assault charges, and asked neighbors for tips.
Douglas County deputies arrested Trey Scott after a year on the run, filed trafficking and assault counts, and arrested Alissa Kellum for aiding a fugitive, as investigators searched Elkhorn addresses and asked the public for tips.
Deputies with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office moved on a house near 124th and Castelar streets, a residential corner folded into west Omaha’s grid, and arrested Trey Scott, 31, a man investigators said had evaded them for roughly a year. Authorities said the arrest stemmed from a sex trafficking investigation that had gathered momentum in recent weeks, and that a second person, 26-year-old Alissa Kellum, was taken into custody on a count of aiding a fugitive. The Sheriff’s Office emphasized the ongoing nature of the inquiry and asked neighbors to share information, steering callers to its dedicated tip line, 402-444-6000, a number detectives repeat when a case is still expanding. The notice, terse but specific, suggested leads remained uncollected, interviews not yet conducted, and digital records still to be parsed. For a year, investigators had been waiting for a break; this address, these arrests, read as a turn in that wait. The question, now that an arrest had been made and a companion had been booked, was how far the alleged conduct stretched, and who else knew something that would help close the loop (Anderson, n.d.).
In an Omaha-area courtroom, Scott made his first appearance on one count labeled labor-slash-sex trafficking and two counts of second-degree assault, the charging language reflecting how the case entered the docket rather than any conclusion about guilt. A judge fixed his bond at $75,000, a threshold that balanced the seriousness of the allegations against Nebraska’s procedures for pretrial release. Kellum stood charged with aiding and abetting a fugitive, separate but tethered to the same file, and her bond was set at $50,000, an amount lower but still material for a 26-year-old defendant with fresh exposure. Both preliminary hearings landed on the same date, August 3, 2026, which meant the Sheriff’s Office and prosecutors had a narrow runway to organize discovery, prioritize witnesses, and line up charging documents. The calendar, as it does in new filings, became a structural piece of the investigation, delimiting when facts must be marshaled and who must be ready to testify. In court, scheduling is strategy in motion, especially when a trafficking count forces a broader evidentiary map (WOWT, n.d.).
Separate from the arrest address, deputies searched an apartment near 204th and Q, a stretch that sits squarely in Elkhorn’s growth corridor, and reported recovering multiple firearms that figured prominently in their subsequent case summary. Investigators said Scott, already out on bond in a February drug case, had been prohibited from possessing weapons under that earlier release order, a condition that converts contraband into leverage when prosecutors evaluate risk and compliance. The Sheriff’s Office published photos of the guns recovered, the kind of evidentiary breadcrumb that signals confidence in the seizure and invites additional tips from people who recognize markings, accessories, or provenance. That detail, the images and the bond condition together, sketched a second track of alleged wrongdoing that could move in tandem with the trafficking and assault counts. Searches like these are as much about context as contraband, laying out a timeline of possession and proximity while interviews and records fill in the gaps. In Elkhorn, the apartment became an evidentiary waypoint, its inventory a question for the next hearing (WOWT, n.d.).
The Sheriff’s Office described Scott as a wanted fugitive for roughly a year, a status that carried its own administrative footprint—warrants, attempted contacts, and missed opportunities that now compress into an arrest narrative anchored by a west Omaha house. The place near 124th and Castelar supplied the scene; the Elkhorn address near 204th and Q supplied the context; together, they plotted a small map of mobility that detectives will revisit when building out travel, communication, and associates. Kellum’s arrest on aiding a fugitive, tethered to the same investigative spine, will prompt its own interview loops, its own calls to friends and relatives, and its own questions about housing, transport, and who knew what when. None of those answers will arrive easily, because trajectories that avoid arrest for months often exploit the ordinary—routines that do not draw notice, favors that do not seem criminal at the time. The public request for tips, the same number repeated, is less a formality than a reminder that cases like this turn on small memories. The year-long gap, however it is explained, will be a core concern when the file reaches a jury line (Anderson, n.d.; WOWT, n.d.).
Prosecutors filed the trafficking count as labor-slash-sex trafficking and paired it with two second-degree assault counts, an alignment that indicates where they believe force, coercion, or injury may be provable but leaves the ultimate determination to later hearings and, if reached, a trial. Bonds set at $75,000 for Scott and $50,000 for Kellum are not endorsements of guilt; they are provisional measures that acknowledge risk, set conditions, and provide a mechanism to return people to court. Both defendants are presumed innocent, a phrase repeated because it is operational—police still gather evidence, defense counsel still test claims, and judges still evaluate reliability. The preliminary hearings on August 3 will test whether enough credible evidence exists to advance the case, a gate that can narrow or expand depending on what investigators present. In similar filings, counsel commonly raise questions about scope, sufficiency, and whether charges are properly joined; those are live issues here, and the court calendar will surface them quickly. The record, at this stage, is thin by design and heavy in consequence (WOWT, n.d.).
Deputies asked for public assistance at the outset, releasing the Sheriff’s Office tip line—402-444-6000—and framing the case as active, a choice that typically reflects parallel leads, expected lab work, or interviews not yet scheduled. Appeals like this are made to neighbors who saw unusual traffic, to service workers who recall a name or number, and to friends who worried privately but never called; each category receives, implicitly, another invitation. The ask sits alongside the decision to publish photos of seized firearms, a move calibrated to jog recognition among people who handle or track weapons in the ordinary course of life. These requests are narrow and practical rather than rhetorical, and they acknowledge that law enforcement’s best chance at speed is a community that picks up the phone. The number, the message, and the case posture are, at this stage, the most visible levers of progress. In west Omaha and Elkhorn, those levers are now in motion (Anderson, n.d.).
Elkhorn, folded into greater Omaha but with its own suburban cadence, surfaced repeatedly in the record, from the 204th and Q search to courtroom references placing the defendant as a local man. The arrest address near 124th and Castelar, while technically within Omaha’s grid, is a manageable drive from those Elkhorn coordinates, a fact that matters when mapping routine, associational ties, and access to cars or buses. Geography is not incidental in trafficking investigations; it identifies potential witnesses, pinpoints cameras and license plate readers, and sets the catchment for subpoenas that pull phone and financial records. In this file, the two addresses—one for the arrest, one for the search—give investigators two hubs to radiate from, two sets of neighbors to canvass, and two property managers to question. Whether those radii intersect at shared names or vehicles remains to be seen; that is the work ahead. For now, the map is drawn, and questions travel with it (WOWT, n.d.; Anderson, n.d.).
This is an active case, with both defendants due back in court for preliminary hearings on August 3, and with deputies still seeking tips from anyone who can move the investigation forward at 402-444-6000. The Sheriff’s Office has already posted photographs of recovered firearms, a decision that often precedes additional interviews and fresh warrants as new details come in. Residents in and around Elkhorn who noticed unfamiliar vehicles, repeating visitors, or changes in routines near 124th and Castelar or 204th and Q are being asked to call, because small facts close large gaps. Trafficking files build incrementally—caller by caller, record by record—and the past year of warrant status will be parsed carefully by counsel on both sides. If you have information pertinent to this investigation, contact the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office tip line; timely reporting can determine what happens next. The next hearing is on the calendar; the request for help remains open (Anderson, n.d.; WOWT, n.d.).
Locations: Omaha, Douglas County, Mass. and Cass, Elkhorn, Asia and the Pacific
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