Children Present During Oak Lawn Heroin Bust

Police found a bag of heroin inside an Oak Lawn woman’s shoe and drug paraphernalia on her companion during a traffic stop, reports said.

While on patrol, officers observed a red Oldsmobile heading westbound on 93rd Street and Harlem Avenue around 2 p.m. Feb. 13.

According to the report, police saw three children standing on the rear seat and jumping around. The children appeared to not be wearing seatbelts.

As officers stopped the car in the middle of the 7000 block of Harlem Avenue, the driver seemed to be moving around the front seat, police said.

Officers advised the driver, identified as Sheila Yeager, 26, of the 9300 block of South Major Avenue, was advised to keep her kids in seat belts.

As Yeager told police how her children always took off her seatbelts when she was driving, the officer noticed a hypodermic needle and bottle cap in her companion’s lap, the report said.

Police asked the man, identified as Kyle R. Smith, 24, of the 5800 block of West Lynwood Drive, to step out of the car.

Smith said the needle wasn’t his but he did use heroin, police said. He was taken into custody.

Bridgeview Police also arrived on the scene. When Yeager was asked if she had anything illegal on her person, she allegedly told police, “search me.”

Yeager, too, was asked to step out of the Olds. Officers searched Yeager and found a small baggie of what later tested positive for heroin inside her left show, reports said.

She was arrested and taken to the Oak Lawn police station.

Police also brought her three young children to the station. On the way over, Yeager’s daughter asked the officer if he was arresting her mother on drug charges, reports said.

According to the officer, the girl told him the drugs weren’t her mommy’s but belonged to Smith.

Smith allegedly told her mother to “hold this” because “cops don’t search girls,” the girl told the officer.

Police said that Yeager gave a written statement corroborating her daughter. Yeager said Smith told her to hold onto the bag of heroin because “cops never search girls,” so she put the baggie of heroin inside her shoe.

The children’s grandparents came to pick up the children at the police station.

Yeager was charged with three counts of failure to secure a child in seat belts, endangering the life of a child and possession of a controlled substance.

Smith was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, endangering the health of a child and possession of a controlled substance.

Police said that Smith was also discovered to be on parole. The Illinois Department of Corrections is issuing a parole violation.

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