Former student sentenced for 2022 Summerland bus incident

Koda Fernau, 20, of Neligh was an 18-year-old Summerland High School student when he made comments on a school bus and at a Neligh workplace in September 2022, comments that resulted in his arrest on a felony terroristic threat charge.

According to arrest affidavits, while riding on a Summerland bus Sept. 2, 2022, Fernau commented about purchasing a firearm and, while at work on Sept. 9, threatened to “shoot up” a Summerland bus.

Fernau pleaded guilty early this year to a Class 1 misdemeanor charge of third-degree assault (threaten another in a menacing manner), as part of a plea deal with Ant...