SYRACUSE – A Ligonier woman was arrested midday Friday after county drug police say she sold an undercover officer OxyContin. Etosha Marie Wooten, 29, of Ligonier, faces a single preliminary charge of felony dealing a controlled substance, after Kosciusko County Drug Task Force officials reportedly made a buy of the popular prescription drug from her just after 11 a.m. in Syracuse.According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department, the multi-unit task force was working an undercover operation in Syracuse when the buy occurred. The amount of OxyContin Wooten allegedly sold was not reported. OxyContin, or Oxycodone, is a prescription narcotic painkiller that offers mis-users the similar effect of heroin. Wooten is being held in the Kosciusko County Jail in lieu of a $10,000 bond.
