(La Porte County, IN - For a short period of time, a local Family Express was not so family friendly.  La Porte County Police were called Wednesday night to the Family Express at U.S. 20 and Indiana 39 on a report of a woman passed out in the driver’s seat of a vehicle with what appeared to be drug paraphernalia on her lap.

Upon arrival, officers found the woman in the driver’s seat and she had regained consciousness.  When asked if she had taken any foreign substances, police said the woman replied “of course.”  She revealed ingesting one half of a pill containing oxycodone, taking “a couple of hits” from a crack pipe and smoking crack earlier in the day, police said. 

During a search of the vehicle, nearly four grams of cocaine were seized along with a pill crusher and the opioid antidote narcan.

Sara Nielson, 47, of South Bend was arrested for Level 6 felony possession of cocaine and Class C misdemeanor possession of paraphernalia.