Snitch Leads Law to Drugstore Prowler’s Joliet Motel Hideout: Cops

JOLIET, IL — The prowler who made off with more than $4,000 worth of prescription pills from Doc’s Drugs was nabbed at a Joliet motel after he was given up by a snitch, police said.

Timothy Spisak, 29, was lured into selling pills to a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in the parking lot of the Super 8 by the Louis mall just before midnight Christmas Eve.

Police and DEA agents had reportedly received a tip that Spisak had burglarized the Doc’s Drugs in Wilmington and was up at the Super 8 plotting to peddle his ill-gotten gains.

Spisak only needed three minutes to break into Doc’s and abscond with more than $4,000 worth of drugs, police said. Cops responding to the burglar alarm reportedly missed Spisak by just two minutes.

Agents and officers not only recovered pills from the motel, but also a “large quantity (of drugs) at another location where Spisak had hidden them,” police said.

“The pills and bottles are consistent with those taken early Wednesday morning from Doc's Drugs in Wilmington,” police said.

Spisak confessed to ripping off Doc’s and provided “details that matched his actions seen in the surveillance tape,” police said. “He was also found in possession of the flannel blanket that he was wearing wrapped around his head while committing the burglary.”

Spisak was booked into the Will County jail. He was set to appear in bond court Christmas morning.