STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — A woman was arrested outside a Stuart Wawa after police say she was found passed out in her vehicle with multiple containers of nitrous oxide, commonly known as “laughing gas” or “whippits.”
According to a probable cause affidavit from the Stuart Police Department, officers were dispatched March 5 to the Wawa at 983 SE Federal Highway after reports of a woman unconscious in a vehicle.
When officers arrived, they found 42-year-old Kaitlyn Jules Garofalo passed out in the driver’s seat of a black Kia Soul parked across two handicap spaces. Investigators say a 0.95-liter container of nitrous oxide was observed in her lap…