Police: Couple Charged With Retail Theft Also Had Shrooms and Heroin

Loss prevention officers called the cops to a store Wednesday night while they said a man was stuffing items in his shorts pockets and a suspicious woman was in a dressing room with a lot of clothing.

Police went to Super Kmart, 16300 S. Harlem Ave., at 10 p.m. for the theft. The man had left the store — followed by store security staff — by the time officers got there, according to the report.

Police spoke to store employees who said Michael A. Manfredi, 30, of Oak Lawn, had allegedly stashed the shoplifted booty in a car that wasn't his. Police said they found two hard drives, a pair of headphones, one bottle of cologne and a Texas Instruments calculator, worth a total of $404.95. They also found a clear plastic bag of Psilocybin, or illegal mushrooms, and a tobacco tin with two small plastic bags of heroin, according to the report.

While speaking with Manfredi, the woman from the dressing room, Nikki A. Schaefer, 21, of Oak Forest left the store. Officers asked her for identification, which she said she couldn't find, police said. She then took three shirts and four pairs of shorts out of her purse, they said, and admitted to stealing them from K-Mart. The items were worth $119.96.

The duo was arrested and taken to the . The fungus and heroin were sent to the Illinois State Police lab for further analysis.

Manfredi was charged with retail theft and two counts of possession of a controlled substance and Schaefer was charged with retail theft.