Police find heroin in car of women wanted on warrants
Butler Township police say a traffic stop and two bench warrant arrests last month also turned up dozens of stamp bags of heroin and drug paraphernalia.
Police said Jennifer Young, 37, and Lindsay Maples, 30, were arrested at about 12:26 a.m. Aug. 20, after an officer following their vehicle on New Castle Road discovered that Young was wanted on a bench warrant out of Venango County.
Police said they pulled the vehicle over off Hansen Avenue, and subsequently discovered that Maples — who allegedly gave police a fake name and had to be identified with a fingerprint scanner — also was wanted on a bench warrant in Butler County.
Police said the women were taken to Butler County Prison and officers seized a blackjack from the vehicle. Officers also obtained a search warrant for the vehicle and found two purses belonging to the women.
Inside Young’s purse, police said, officers found 26 stamp bags of heroin, a “nonprescribed” pill, four syringes, a crack pipe, tourniquets, rubber bands and other drug paraphernalia.
Police said Maples’ purse contained seven stamp bags of heroin, 45 empty stamp bags, five syringes, a crack pike, rubber bands, a tourniquet and other paraphernalia.
Police said Young was charged with possessing a prohibited offensive weapon, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and two traffic violations.
Maples was charged with false identification to law enforcement, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to police.
