Kelsey Rose Lansaw

An employee of a Pine day care center has been arrested for selling drugs to undercover officers, including one incident in which police say she left the children she was watching to conduct a deal in the parking lot.

Kelsey Rose Lansaw, 19, of Franklin Park, was arrested Saturday, after the second of two occasions in which investigators claim she sold drugs to an undercover officer. The first, according to a criminal complaint, was in the parking lot of Forever Young day care center on Brooktree Road on June 26.

Detective Jason Stewart of the Coraopolis police department, working undercover, said he received a call from Ms. Lansaw about a marijuana purchase and they arranged to meet at her workplace. According to the complaint, Ms. Lansaw directed Det. Stewart to the day care center, where he saw her playing outside with several young children. Ms. Lansaw left the kids and got into Det. Stewart's vehicle to give him a baggie of marijuana that she removed from her bra in exchange for $60, the detective wrote in the complaint.

On Saturday, Det. Stewart met Ms. Lansaw again at a gas station in Coraopolis to purchase $750 worth of Ecstasy. After making the transaction, Det. Stewart called in other officers to make the arrest. Coraopolis police worked with the Allegheny County District Attorney Narcotics Enforcement Team on the investigation.

Ms. Lansaw was charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance, two counts of drug possession with intent to deliver, two counts of drug possession, two counts of criminal use of a communication facility and one count of criminal conspiracy.

Ms. Lansaw is scheduled for a preliminary hearing before District Judge Mary P. Murray in Coraopolis on July 14.