No threat to public safety

SIDNEY -- Sidney Police and Cheyenne County Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to a disturbance at Walmart with a firearm at about 2:12 p.m.

Cheyenne County Zach Goodrich said both departments arrived at the scene of a two men and a woman, all of Cheyenne County.

"Both the Sheriff's Office and the Police Department were dispatched at 14:12 (2:12 p.m.) to Walmart due to a disturbance between two males and a firearm was pulled," Deputy Goodrich said. 

Sidney Police officer Nicholas Conger arrived on the scene first with Deputy Goodrich arriving second.

Goodrich said police detained the man with the gun, and he met with the second man. Goodrich said it was determined there was a verbal altercation between the two men, which escalated into the one male pulling a firearm and pointing it at the other man. 

The man has been identified as Jeremy Lee Lurz, 37, of Sidney. Upon contact with Officer Conger, Lurz surrendered a green and black handgun in the holster he described as a "pepper ball gun."

Also at the scene, Heather Prue, 40, of Sidney. She was arrested for Violation of a Protection Order. She was booked into Cheyenne County Jail. 

Dominick J. Tognotti, 43, reported he, his four-year-old son and his father were shopping at Walmart when his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child Heather Prue and her new boyfriend Jeremy Lurz entered the store. According to the arrest affidavit, a conflict started when Prue tried to make contact with her son. 

Goodrich said two were taken into custody and the third issued a citation.

"As a result to the investigation, one male was arrested, taken into custody for Terroristic Threats, Disturbing the Peace and Third Degree Menacing. The other man was issued a citation for disturbing the peace and third degree menacing. And there was a female on scene that was arrested for a Protection Order Violation," he said.

According to the affidavit, Prue is "restrained from assaulting, threatening, abusing, harassing, following, interfering, or stalking the protected person and/or the child of the protected person included but not limited to personal, written or telephone contact, or their employers, employees or fellow workers, or other with whom the communication would likely cause annoyance or alarm the victim."

Goodrich said there was no active threat to the public Sunday afternoon.