New Lenox Woman Caught With Meth After Stealing From Frankfort Kohl's: Cops

A New Lenox woman apparently really likes Kohl’s and methamphetamine.

Christina Sepsis, 35, was jailed Wednesday for allegedly stealing from the same Frankfort Kohl’s she was charged with shoplifting from in 2011.

The theft charge was dropped when Sepsis pleaded guilty to a possessing methamphetamine. Sepsis was also charged with possessing methamphetamine when she was arrested this week.

A Frankfort police officer reportedly tracked down Sepsis after a worker from Kohl’s called the law on her. The officer pulled her over near the intersection of Route 30 and Route 45, said Frankfort Deputy Chief Kevin Keegan.

Sepsis at first denied stopping into the Kohl’s but eventually admitted she had been there, Keegan said. She was also “sweating, nervous, talking rapidly,” he said, and the officer noticed the stolen merchandise in her car.

The officer also reportedly found methamphetamine and a pipe.

In addition to her methamphetamine conviction, Sepsis pleaded guilty in 2013 to attempting to foil a drug test. As part of her plea, a charge of battery was dropped.

Sepsis was hit with that case in November 2012 when a drug test observer heard a “plop” and saw her pluck something from the toilet and stash it in her pocket, a prosecutor said at the time.

When the observer told Sepsis to hand over what was in her pocket, the prosecutor said, Sepsis pushed her against a wall and flushed away whatever she was holding. She later claimed it was a tampon, he said.

A month before that, Sepsis’ live-in boyfriend—41-year-old George Crocker—was charged with carrying two hand grenades in his car. Lemont police officers reportedly found Crocker lying outside the open door of the car in the parking lot of a McDonald’s. He was incoherent, police said, and while paramedics were trying to render first aid, an officer spotted one of the two hand grenades on the car’s center console.

Crocker pleaded guilty in September to the possession of a controlled substance and being a felon in possession of a weapon. He was sentenced to three years in prison and is now locked up at Vandalia Correctional Center.

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