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Thanks to a confidential informant, Union County sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday arrested one of the county’s most wanted drug dealers.

Deputies apprehended Darlene Wadlington, 38, at her home on Philadelphia Road after receiving a tip that she was inside the residence, according to a sheriff’s report.

She was found hiding under a blanket.

Union County Sheriff Ken Jones said Wednesday in an e-mail statement that Wadlington is considered a “major player in the drug trade in Union County,” and that her arrest is “significant to disrupting” some of t...