Former longtime Brownsville school board member charged during drug raid
A former longtime Brownsville Area School District board member was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with selling drugs.
Stella Jean Broadwater, 70, of Brownsville was charged in four cases for allegedly selling Subutex and Suboxone in 2016 from her Lewis Street house, where she has lived for 41 years.
Broadwater allegedly sold the controlled substances to confidential informants on four occasions.
In the first case, she allegedly sold 14 Subutex pills to an informant in a controlled buy for $35 apiece Sept. 6. In the second case, she allegedly sold 12 Subutex pills to an informant for the same price Aug. 23.
She allegedly sold 10 Suboxone strips for $20 apiece to an informant July 14, and again sold 10 Suboxone strips for $20 apiece four days later.
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She is charged with four counts each of possession with intent to deliver and possession of a controlled substance. Metros set her bond at $15,000 in each case.
Broadwater spent more than two decades on the school board, and was last elected to a four-year term in 2009. In 2013, Broadwater opted not to run again, and instead mounted an unsuccessful campaign to be the borough蘑菇视频 tax collector.