New Lenox Father Shares Pain of Losing Son to Heroin

Bill Robinson, of New Lenox, told the current crop of graduates from the Will County Drug Court program—the same program that his son was enrolled in—that he almost made it.

For the past two years, his son had managed to avoid the demons that fed his addiction to heroin. He'd earned his GED and gotten a job, the Sun-Times Media reported. But then he succumbed to the addiction once again. Having followed the strict dictates of the drug program for two years, he fell. He had “one day of making very bad choices.”  

Read more about a father's advice to the graduates of Will County Drug Court in the Sun-Times Media.

Robinson was found dead Nov. 25, 2012, of a fatal heroin overdose in the 700 block of Stonegate Road.   

Nicholas J. DePratt, 26, of the 200 block of S. Cooper Road, was charged March 12 with drug-induced homicide in connection with Robinson's death, according to New Lenox Police Deputy Chief Robert Pawlicz. As of March 31, DePratt remains in Will County jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond.  

New Lenox Deputy Police Chief Robert Pawlicz revealed that Nicholas J. DePratt, 26, of the 200 block of S. Cooper Road, had supplied the heroin to Robinson.

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