Thursday, April 12, 2012

Somerset Man Mails Drugs To Kentucky

{Somerset, Kentucky}...Shannon R. Helton, 31, of Somerset, has been charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance after police say he broke into a business in Florida and stole drugs to mail back to Kentucky. State police received information that Helton was mailing pills to Kentucky from Captiva, Florida, where he allegedly had burglarized a business. Police seized a total of 565 OxyContin and Hydromorphine pills, worth an estimated $11,300 on the street, Wednesday in Somerset and arrested Helton. Charges are pending against Helton in Florida.