Two days after Tanya Bowman’s alleged involvement in a drug sale, investigators with the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit (NEU) raided her city apartment in 1609 Memorial Ave. on Oct. 21 and seized five bricks of fentanyl, according to court records filed at Frey’s office. “Three of the bricks were wrapped in magazine articles while two others were bundled together in rubber bands. A total of 253 bags of fentanyl were seized,” an affidavit stated. Arraigned on felony charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, Bowman, 63, was released on $25,000 bail.

In another NEU case, Valerie Rose Tallent, 36, of Selinsgrove, has been charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance for selling $600 worth of methamphetamines and 10 bags of fentanyl to an informant West Third and Walnut streets in the city on Jan. 12, it was alleged in an affidavit. Following her arraignment hours later, Tallent was jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail.

In another case, the NEU has arrested Jessica L. Weikel, 34, of 900 W. Third St., and charged her delivery of a controlled substance and illegal use of cellphone after she sold nine bags of crack cocaine to an informant in the 900 block of Vine Ave. in the city on Nov. 30, investigators alleged. Jailed last week following her arraignment, Weikel has since been released on $25,000 bail and has waived her preliminary hearing.

In another NEU case, Kimberly Ann Shearer, 31, of 433 Mountain Springs Lane, Montoursville, has been charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance and one count each of illegal use of a cellphone and conspiracy for her alleged involvement in selling crack cocaine or fentanyl in the city, according to court records. One sale occurred near Memorial Avenue and Ames Place on Sept. 20 and the other took place at Grier and Louisa streets on Nov. 12, investigators alleged. Following her arraignment before Frey, she was released on $50,000 bail.

In another case, Angela A. Alberts, 43, of 2500 Federal Ave., apartment 267, faces two sets of drug charges; one filed by the NEU and another by city police. The narcotics unit charged her with one felony count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance after 12 grams of crack cocaine were discovered in her apartment when investigators executed a search warrant there on Jan. 10.

City police charged her with the same offense plus possession of drug paraphernalia after six grams of cocaine were discovered in her backpack in the 1200 block of Walnut Street on Sept. 19, according to an affidavit. “She became very emotional and stated ‘I don’t want to go to jail. I can’t go to jail’ and said she would ‘tell us what we wanted to know,'” court records stated. Following her arraignment Tuesday on the two sets of charges, she was released on $50,000 bail.