Two Osterburg women were taken into custody after a traffic stop for speeding led state police to discover about six bricks of narcotics in a dog bed within the vehicle.

Jennifer Virginia Sell, 46, and Anna Margaret Strayer, 44, were arraigned Friday by Magisterial District Judge Kevin R. Diehl on identical charges of a single felony count of possession with intent to deliver and single misdemeanor counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance. Strayer was also charged with two summary traffic violations.

Sell and Strayer were remanded to the Bedford County Correctional Facility after being unable to pay their respective $250,000 bails.

Two officers with state police at Hollidaysburg were sitting at the intersection of SR 56 and Cemetery Road in West St. Clair Township, Bedford County, about 12:25 a.m. Friday when they clocked a red Mitsubishi Outlander traveling about 42 mph in a 35 mph zone. The vehicle also lacked a working registration plate light, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

When officers performed a traffic stop, they noted that the driver, later identified as Strayer, was “extremely nervous.” Strayer told officers the passenger was her sister, later identified as Sell, and that they were on their way home from picking up their dog in Pittsburgh. She said they had dropped off the dog about four days prior as they were trying to breed it, the police report states.

After further questioning of both Strayer and Sell, officers told the pair they were seeing indicators of something illegal being in the Mitsubishi. Strayer said there wasn’t anything illegal in the vehicle and declined officers’ request to search it, the report states.

When officers asked Sell to exit the vehicle, they reported seeing a smoking device and a ripped piece of tin foil. Sell then told officers she had illicit items on her person, the report states.

The pair ultimately told officers they hadn’t gone to Pittsburgh to breed their dog, but to purchase narcotics. They told officers the drugs were hidden in the dog bed and gave officers permission to search the Mitsubishi. A subsequent search of the vehicle yielded about six bricks of xylazine from within the dog bed, as well as other pieces of drug paraphernalia throughout the Mitsubishi, the report states.

After being transported to the state police barracks at Bedford, Strayer told officers there were an additional two bricks of xylazine in her hair. Officers reported the total amount of seized xylazine as 562 glassine bags, according to the affidavit.

Sell and Strayer are scheduled for preliminary hearings May 20 in front of Diehl.