Couple Charged for Allegedly Littering Syringes

Two people were arrested late last month and charged with reckless endangerment after they allegedly threw several drug-related items from a van in North Hills.

Benjamin Michael Sprague, 25, of Senak Road, Roslyn; and Caitlin Nicole Wood, 23, of York Road, Jenkintown, were arrested Feb. 20 just before 11:30 a.m. after police said both of them threw several blue wax paper bags and several uncapped syringes out of the windows of a silver Chevrolet Van near the corner of Limekiln Pike and Mount Carmel Avenue.

During a traffic stop, police said they found several blue wax papers in the driver’s side door card which contained suspected heroin residue, as well as a capped syringe in the vehicle’s cup holder.

On the ground in the area of Limekiln Pike and Mount Carmel Avenue, police said they found at least three uncapped syringes as well as several blue wax paper baggies. 

Police said the area gets a lot of foot traffic and the uncapped syringes could have caused serious injury.

According to court documents, Sprague, the driver of the van, has also been arrested in Abington in December 2005 for theft from a motor vehicle, and arrested in Upper Dublin in 2010 for theft. 

Wood has been arrested in January 2008 in Abington for DUI; in April 2011 in Abington for marijuana possession; and in December 2010 in Upper Moreland for burglary and conspiracy.

A preliminary hearing for Sprague and Wood is scheduled for April 26 at 1 p.m. in front of District Justice Juanita Price.