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County detectives allege Matthew Robert Napier, of Delaware County, committed the crime while housed at Montgomery County jail.
An inmate at Montgomery County Correctional Facility is facing charges lodged by Montgomery County detectives this month of aggravated assault with bodily injury, aggravated harassment by a prisoner, and misdemeanor reckless endangerment for allegedly spitting in the face of a corrections officer in November.
Detectives allege that on Nov. 26, 2024, a sergeant was working a shift as a corrections officer at the Lower Providence Township facility in the housing section, when inmate Matthew Robert Napier, 26, of the 900 block of South Providence Road, Wallingford, Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, began causing a disturbance in his cell.
Napier allegedly threw trash, mattresses and an unknown liquid into the day room. Per the affidavit, Napier spit at the sergeant, hitting him in the eye with saliva.
The officer was medically treated for exposure to Napier’s saliva, investigators said.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. before Magisterial District Judge Cathleen Kelly Rebar.
Napier remains at Montgomery County jail on $5,077 cash bail, which includes a parole/probation detainer, according to court records.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
