By: Maria Miller

SOMERSET, Pa. -- A Somerset County mother is in jail accused of sending her own young son on a drug deal. Authorities said it happened in an alley about five blocks away from their house, this past summer. Police say they found the boy sitting on his bike in an alley, waiting with prescription pills.

According to documents filed against Lisa Henry Thursday, undercover informants under the surveillance of Somerset County drug task force detectives first stopped at Henry's South Ankeny Avenue home back in June to purchase prescription drugs.

But once inside authorities said she wasn't alone. They said at least two of her young children were also there when she allegedly gave the informant a box of Adderall in exchange for cash.

"I'm not surprised. There's always activity over there," said a neighbor who didn't want to be identified. "The kids are always gone all hours of the night."

"Recently we've been developing information rather quickly, I think, because of four years of being in the area you get to know the name," said Lisa Lazzari-Strasiser, District Attorney for Somerset County.

Two weeks after the first alleged buy authorities said they set up another undercover buy about five blocks down the alley from Henry's home, next to Findley's Pharmacy on Main Street. Authorities said their informant knew the name of the person Henry had them meeting, but never expected to find who was waiting,

"It's a little hard to swallow I guess," Lazzari-Strasiser said. "We had information of who would be delivering, but we had no information that it would be a juvenile."

Authorities said that juvenile, Henry's 15-year-old son, was riding his bike in the alley next to the pharmacy when the informant approached him, again to buy Adderall in exchange for money.

"It bothers me. It bothers all of us," said the unidentified woman who lives near Henry." When you see kids getting involved, that's what's scary."

"You just can't do this," Lazzari-Strasiser said. "You can't engage juveniles to peddle your drugs for you."

Henry is in the Somerset County Jail unable to post her $2,500 bond.

Lazzari-Strasiser said she recognizes it's not a lot but said it's still a statement and enough to keep her jail in at least a while to ensure others they won't put up with drugs.

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