A Des Moines woman has been given an additional ten year prison term for her role in a Newton woman’s drug overdose death in 2023. Twenty-seven-year-old Taylor Elizabeth Ann Nelson received her sentence earlier this week from District Court Judge David Faith. Her ten year sentence will be added onto the prison time Nelson has to serve for theft, forgery, and drug convictions in Polk County.
In May, a Jasper County jury found Nelson guilty of delivering five grams or less of heroin to 25-year-old Kristen Nicole Ewing. But the jurors could not reach a unanimous decision on the County Attorney Office’s claim that the drugs she provided ultimately caused Ewing’s death at her home on July 9th, 2023. Court testimony revealed officers at the scene found three rocks of a…..