A Nesquehoning woman is behind bars for her connection with selling drugs in the borough.

Nesquehoning Police Chief Sean Smith said officers from Nesquehoning, Weatherly, Pennsylvania State Police K-9 Unit and Carbon County detectives and adult probation executed a search warrant for narcotics Wednesday at the home of Patricia Wernett, 61, of 131 E. Garibaldi Ave., after she sold Oxycodone to police informants on three separate occasions between Jan. 18 and Feb. 10.She was taken into custody and charged with three counts each of criminal use of communication facility, unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.Wernett is currently in the Carbon County Correctional Facility. Bail has been set at $10,000 straight for each of the three felony arrest warrants.According to the affidavits, officer Timothy Wuttke and Smith met with the confidential informant between Jan. 18 and 23; Jan. 26 and 30; and Feb. 5 and 10, who told them that Wernett was selling 15 mg. tablets of oxycodone for $10 a pill.Smith advised the informant to contact Wernett following each meeting and set up a location to purchase set amounts of pills. The first purchase was for eight pills; and the second and third purchases, 10 pills each for a total cost of $280.Before the purchases, Wuttke searched the informant's vehicle to make sure no money or contraband was in their possession. He then parked close enough to see the front of Wernett's residence without being seen. Officer Richard Neikam and Smith followed the informant to Wernett's residence.The informant then entered the home and spent approximately 5-10 minutes with Wernett on each buy.Following the purchases, the informant again met with Wuttke and Smith and turned over the buy, which was wrapped in aluminum foil and contained light green tablets. Police took the pills to CVS and confirmed that they were oxycodone, a schedule II narcotic.