YORK COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) – A York County woman has been sentenced to 15 months in jail after pleading no contest last November to using her minor daughter to distribute controlled substances over several years, court records show.
Shantell Perkins, 36, of Seward, was originally charged with using a minor to distribute controlled substances, possession of a controlled substance and child abuse after authorities learned she had been forcing her daughter to deliver prescription pills, including Xanax, morphine, hydrocodone and OxyContin, to customers across South Dakota and Nebraska since at least 2018.
According to an arrest affidavit, a teen told her therapist that her mother had been forcing her to deliver drugs for several years. The girl said she made deliveries on at least 50 occasions in multiple communities across South Dakota and in Benedict, York and Seward, Nebraska, and that she never received money for the transactions…