DONIPHAN, Neb. -- Over five years in prison was given to a Doniphan woman due to a meth-related charge.

U.S. Attorney Steven Russell said 36-year-old Stacy Lynn Delamotte, of Doniphan, was sentenced in federal court in Lincoln on Friday. Delamotte was charged for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. She will serve 70 months in prison along with a four-year term of supervised release after. There is no parole in the federal system. Delamotte will also forfeit to the United States $6,000, which was seized as profits from her drug activities.

According to court documents, the Grand Island Police Department responded to a report of shoplifting at Menards in Grand Island on March 24, 2021. Delamotte tried to hide the items inside of a box to avoid paying for them. When confronted, she fled on foot. Officers found her vehicle, a 2013 Chrysler 300, in the parking lot. A review of the surveillance video showed Delamotte exit the driver’s seat of the Chrysler 300 at Menards.

Officials said her vehicle was towed and a search warrant was used. They found one ounce of meth on the floor of the passenger seat. A backpack was in the vehicle and two more ounces of meth, a digital scale, and a small baggie containing an additional one gram of meth was found inside it. Investigators got into the locked glove box and found $6,000 in United States currency.

This case was investigated by the Grand Island Police Department and the Nebraska State Patrol.