Cops Checking on Unconscious Oswego Woman Outside New Lenox Kmart Found Heroin: Cops

An Oswego woman who passed out in the parking lot of the New Lenox Kmart was caught with heroin, police said.

Shannon Novak, 31, was taken into custody on a charge of possession of a controlled substance about 5 p.m. Thursday.

An “officer was dispatched to the Kmart parking lot (in) reference (to) a subject passed out behind the wheel of a car,” police said. “Upon the officer’s arrival (Novak) was awake and refused medical treatment.”

The officer then reportedly found that Novak was holding small plastic bags of white powder.