CENTRALIA — Centralia police have conducted another buy/bust arrest in an operation aimed at combating street-level drug trafficking.

According to Police Chief Greg Dodson, on Friday CPD’s Investigations Division set up officers covertly in a downtown area where they had set up a prearranged drug purchase.

The interdiction team then reportedly witnessed a prearranged drug deal take place; they then arrested 24-year-old Madeline R.A. Cummins.

Dodson says two grams of a substance that field-tested positive for Methamphetamine were recovered at the scene and Cummins was charged with Possession and Delivery of Methamphetamine within 500 feet of a church and school.

She was processed and transported to the Marion County Jail to appear in court on the charges.

Dodson says these types of drug trafficking operations are a priority for the Centralia Police Department, adding that the blatant open public sales of illicit drugs in our community cannot be tolerated as they diminish the sense of safety and security felt by the citizens.

Reducing and or eliminating these types of open public sales is a priority for the Centralia Police Department, says Dodson, in order to ensure the citizens of our community feel safe in our public spaces.