EBENSBURG - Three Cambria County women were making $10,000 a month peddling potent painkillers across central Cambria County and the entire Mainline, authorities said Thursday.
The women, arrested Wednesday, are charged with several counts of drug delivery in an ongoing investigation into pill trafficking here, Cambria County District Attorney Patrick T. Kiniry said.
"These girls were selling an obscene amount of drugs," Cambria County Drug Task Force Supervisor Kevin Price said.
Sisters Kelly Weimer, 22, of East Taylor Township and Kathleen Weimer, 20, of Conemaugh and a third woman, Shauna DeLozier, 22, an acquaintance from Revloc, were selling higher-level painkillers like OxyContin, Roxicet and morphine for up to $70 a pill, Price said.
Investigators said they'd seen a surge in reports of drugs like OxyContin on the streets in recent months, eventually leading them to the women.
Undercover officers and informants made several pill buys, Price said, and afterward, task force agents, the FBI and Cambria County Sheriff's Office obtained warrants for all three.
The Weimers were taken into custody in a Conemaugh home, where more than $600 in suspected drug money and $2,500 in pills also were secured, Price said.
DeLozier was taken into custody in Sankertown, Kiniry said.
All three remained in the Cambria County Prison Thursday.
Bail for the Weimers was set at $30,000 each, and DeLozier was jailed on a probation warrant.
The task force credited police from Cresson, Ebensburg and Nanty Glo for their help in the probe.
Investigators said they are still looking into how the women were obtaining the pills, saying other arrests are likely.
Mirror Staff Writer David Hurst is at 946-7457.
