A woman is accused of "cooking" methamphetamine in her Slatington apartment, and then dealing the drug twice to an undercover Lehigh County detective.

Kelsey Rockel said, "It's hard to cook when the kids are home," and on another day admitted to producing the drug four times in her apartment in the first block of North Seventh Street in the borough, authorities said.

The 23-year-old Rockel was arrested on Friday and was charged with four counts of possession with intent to deliver meth, two counts each of possession of a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility and conspiracy. She was sent to Lehigh County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Rockel's boyfriend, Joshua Kresge, is facing similar charges in Lehigh County, as well as a handful of charges in Carbon County, including operating a methamphetamine lab, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe. Kresge has not been arraigned in either case, court records show.

The Lehigh County District Attorney's office said a deal was made with Rockel on Jan. 20 to buy Betist meth, and an undercover detective witnessed the deal inside a car near Rockel's apartment.

Rockel apologized for being late, and made the comment about producing the drug, prosecutors said.

Four days later, the same undercover detective contacted Rockel directly to buy meth from her.

Rockel agreed, but asked the officer to front her some money so she could buy pseudoephedrine pills necessary to make meth, prosecutors said.

The officer picked up Rockel at her apartment, and picked up Kresge in Palmerton. Rokel reportedly said she produced the drug four times at her apartment, and that Kresge helped her.

The detective drove to a nearby Kmart, gave Rockel $40 and she purchased two boxes of pseudoephedrine, prosecutors said. While she was in the store, Kresge asked the detective is he was an "attorney general" and said if he was, "he had to tell him because it would be entrapment if he did not," court records say.

The trio drove back to Slatington, and Rockel told the detective to return in about 40 minutes so they could make the meth, prosecutors said. The detective went back and Rockel delivered the drug, authorities said.

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