WORCESTER, Mass. — A 52-year-old Worcester woman has been charged with trafficking fentanyl and crack cocaine after police said officers saw her sell drugs twice on Oread Street in Worcester on the evening of Nov. 3.

Members of the Worcester Police Department's Neighborhood Response Team went to Oread Street at about 7:49 p.m. after a report of a drug violation, the department said Wednesday. Officers saw a woman take part in two drug sales, police said, and approached her. She was identified as Jodi Barria of Worcester.

According to police, Barria told an officer that she kept drugs in her bra. She was arrested, along with the two people police said had bought drugs from her. The department did not identify the two buyers or say what charges they face.

Officers searched Barria more thoroughly after taking her to the police station, police said. They found 52 individually packaged bags of fentanyl and 28 individually packaged bags of crack cocaine, along with a large amount of cash in her purse, according to the department.

Barria is charged with trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, trafficking 18 to 36 grams of a class B substance and distribution of a class B substance, crack cocaine, police said.

The charges are allegations, and Barria is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.

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