Manawa man charged with felon possessing firearm

Scott T. Secard, 46, Manawa, is charged with convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

Shortly before 6 a.m. Monday, March 7, a 911 caller reported that her neighbor, Secard, had been talking to her security-cam doorbell around 1 a.m. about a missing girl.

Then around 5:30 a.m. he came to her house and said someone broke into his own home and into his mother’s home, which is about two blocks away.

According to the criminal complaint, the caller also reported that Secard said there were guns in his mother’s home.

Shortly after 6 a.m., Secard called 911 and reported he was in his mother’s basement and he saw someone in the corner saying, “Don’t look in the corner.”

Secard said he had been out looking for a missing girl earlier that night.
“He reported there were two or three people involved in the incident, they put micro cameras up, and drugged him through a vodka bottle at his home,” the complaint says.

Deputies went to the mother’s home. They asked Secard to step outside.

Secard told the deputies that someone had been in the house and drugged his drinks.

According to the complaint, Secard’s hands were shaking and he appeared to be in alcohol-related withdrawal.

Secard reportedly said he broke the lock on the service door from the garage into the house.

Deputies found a hammer on a counter in the garage next to the service door.

They also found a .22-cal. rifle on the counter and a box of .22-cal. ammunition on a chair inside the laundry room near the service door.

The rifle’s magazine was loaded and its chamber jammed with a loaded round.

On Oct. 19, 2018, Secard was convicted of a fourth operating while intoxicated, a felony offense that restricts him from possessing firearms.