Sheriff’s Office collected 118 pounds of prescription medications and other drugs turned in by the public in a drug take-back day on Sept. 27 at the Chalmette Walgreens store

Jeanne and Gregory Keys of New Orleans turned in medications at the take-back day. Behind them is Capt. Pat Childress, a sheriff’s deputy assigned to a DEA task force who was present to collect the surrendered drugs.

Sharie Waguespack of Chalmette drops medications in a box at the take-back event.

Sharie Waguespack of Chalmette was at the Chalmette Walgreens store on Saturday, Sept. 27 and saw the Sheriff’s Office was holding a drug take-back event to collect expired prescription medications and other no longer needed drugs to keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

Waguespack went home and returned with a bag to surrender items she no longer needed.

“I know it’s a good cause,’’ she said of the take-back effort. “And I know you all say don’t throw them in the garbage because someone could find them or down a toilet because that could hurt wildlife or seafood’’ when the water is returned to nature.

Many residents of St. Bernard and some from New Orleans took the time to go to Walgreens to drop off no longer needed medications.

The Sheriff’s Office collected 118 pounds of drugs that will be burned.

“That’s 118 pounds of drugs – a lot of drugs – that won’t hit the streets of this parish and possibly lead to a young person getting hooked on prescription medications,’’ St. Bernard Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

This was the sixth year the Sheriff’s Office has held the highly successful program aimed at ridding unused or no longer needed drugs from medicine chests so no one finds them and uses or sells them.

The U.S. Drug Enforcememnt Administration held a national drug take-back day along with State Police on Sept, 27 and the Sheriff’s Office took part. St. Bernard authorities were holding the program before it went national.

Surrendering old drugs is important, the sheriff said, because studies show young people often abuse prescription drugs after stealing them from medicine chests at the homes of relatives or at parents of friends.

Some 110 Americans die each day from prescription drug overdoses, a disturbing number that must be brought down through such efforts as a Drug Take-Back Day.

Sheriff Pohlmann thanked Walgreens officials for hosting the event, saying the location at Paris Road at Judge Perez Drive provides an easily accessible spot for the public to turn in medications. The 4-hour event continued a successful partnership with the Walgreens store in Chalmette, which has hosted the take-back event three times with the Sheriff’s Office.

Several Walgrens officials took part, including Chalmette store manager Charles Mengel, Gerard Robinette, loss prevention manager for Walgreen’s New Orleans West District; and Bob Lips, loss prevention manager for a number of the company’s stores.

The St. Bernard Parish Fire Department also participated in the event, with two trucks and a number of firefighters at the scene.

Capt. Pat Childress, a sheriff’s deputy assigned to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration task force, and Cpl. Jessica Gernados of the Special Investigations Division were at Walgreens to collect the medications turned in by the public.

Warren Rivera, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans field division of the federal DEA, also visited the event.

St. Bernard residents are reminded they can call the sheriff’s 271-DOPE hot line (271-3673) any time to turn in prescription drugs between official drug take-back days, which are done in the Spring and Fall. A Narcotics Unit agent will call them back to make arrangements to receive them.

Also, call the DOPE hotline, which is anonymous, to report suspected illegal drug activity in St. Bernard Parish. All calls will be acted upon.

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Two burglaries solved: three teen boys arrested in burglary and vandalism of Val Riess Park multi-purpose building; Man arrested in residential break-in

Two 13-year-old boys and a 14-year-old were arrested for burglarizing and vandalizing the Val Riess Park multi-purpose building in Chalmette on Sunday, Sept. 21 and separately a man was booked after breaking into a Chalmette residence, then reporting the burglary himself in an attempt to throw off investigating sheriff’s deputies, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

The boys, all of whom live in Chalmette, were arrested the night of Sept. 22 and property taken in the burglary, including candy and drinks, was recovered at their homes, the sheriff said.

They were placed in the parish Juvenile Detention Center and two of them have been bonded out while one remains there, the sheriff said. The names of juveniles arrested aren’t released.

The building, in the park at 1101 E. Magistrate St., Chalmette, was vandalized by the three, including damage to the drop-down ceiling in the kitchen. Baseball bats and baseballs found on the floor appeared to have been thrown through the ceiling.

Also, a golf cart was driven over tables and metal reception dividers in the main hall, damaging them.

Information was developed on suspects the day the burglary was discovered and the arrests followed that night.

Separately, a Slidell man who reported a residential burglary on Volpe Drive in Chalmette on Sept. 17 and even claimed to have followed a man and woman he said fled in a vehicle, was later booked with the burglary himself, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

Lester Cure, 32, was arrested Sept. 17 on a simple burglary count and has been released from jail on a $10,000 bond.

Cure reported he was on the street and saw a man come over a fence from the house involved and flee in a vehicle driven by a woman. He said he followed them in a car until he lost sight of them.

But another witness identified Cure as a man she saw outside the burglarized house but said he was wearing a different shirt at the time and was carrying a screw driver in a pocket. There were pry marks on the back door of the house broken into.

After further investigation, which included deputies finding a shirt in a yard matching the description of the one the witness said Cure had been wearing, he was arrested.

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Don’t let unused prescription medicine fall into the wrong hands: Turn them in to the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office this Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Chalmette Walgreens store

St. Bernard Sheriff James Pohlmann is urging people not to let their unused prescription medications such as pain-killer pills fall into the wrong hands.

Instead, turn them in to the Sheriff’s Office this Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Chalmette Walgreens store parking lot on National Drug Take-Back Day.

This is the fifth year for the highly successful program aimed at ridding unused or no longer needed drugs from medicine chests so no one else finds them and uses or sells them on the streets

“Don’t let young people get hooked on pills they find while visiting you,’’ Sheriff Pohlmann said. Also, “don’t throw medication in the garbage where it can be found or down a toilet where it can end up affecting wildlife or seafood in marshes.’’

Sheriff Pohlmann added, “Instead, bring any medication you don’t use to us so it can be destroyed properly.’’

The Drug Take-Back Day is held in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and State Police efforts.

Surrendering old drugs is important, the sheriff said, because studies show young people often abuse prescription drugs after stealing them from medicine chests at the homes of relatives or at parents of friends.

Some 110 Americans die each day from prescription drug overdoses, a disturbing number that must be brought down through such efforts as a Drug Take-Back Day.

In St. Bernard, hundreds of pounds of drugs have been surrendered in recent years during such efforts.

St. Bernard residents are reminded they can also call the sheriff’s 271-DOPE hot line (271-3673) at any time they want to turn in prescription drugs between official drug take-back days. A Narcotics Unit agent will call them back to make arrangements to receive them.

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St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office partners with Project NOLA’s crime camera system to better protect the parish and respond even quicker to crime; Residents are invited to become part of the system

Project NOLA has partnered with the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office to bring the group’s highly successful crime camera system to the parish to help authorities respond even quicker to crime, announced Sheriff James Pohlmann and Bryan Lagarde, Executive Director of Project NOLA.

“We see only good things coming from this partnership, with a better chance of quickly identifying suspects in criminal acts,’’ Sheriff Pohlmann said. “This will give us a lot more eyes around the parish,’’ he said of the live feeds and play-back ability of a crime camera system.

Sheriff Pohlmann also emphasized that, “Time saved by having this valuable information immediately accessible to the Sheriff’s Office, rather than having to go door-to-door looking to find a video surveillance system in an area where a crime occurred, would aid in making a speedy arrest or even possibly saving a life by getting the perpetrators off the street.”

“We invite St. Bernard Parish residents, business owners and neighborhood associations to look into the possibility of becoming part of this crime camera system,’’ the sheriff said. “The Project NOLA program can expand the already great relationship we have with parish residents.’’

Lagarde, a former New Orleans police officer, said his group is “excited about the opportunity to assist the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office to continue to make the parish a safer place to live, work and play.’’

To participate, residents or business owners may call (504) 298-9117 to purchase a Project NOLA HD crime camera kit for $295, or may call and sign up their own third-party camera as long as it is compatible with the Project NOLA system.

All participants will pay a $9.99 per month maintenance fee to Project NOLA to cover costs of video data streaming, server costs and related expenses. Those buying crime cameras from Project NOLA can install them on their own or pay $150 to have them installed by an electrician.

To take part a participant must have the Internet at their home or business where the camera would be.

As with the New Orleans-based Project NOLA system, no federal dollars or tax money is being used to fund this program.

“We believe the Project NOLA non-profit HD crime camera system is the most cost-efficient crime camera system in the world and that our New Orleans network of crime cameras has become the largest HD city-wide system in America,’’ Lagarde said

Introduced in New Orleans in 2011, Project NOLA now has more than 1,100 cameras on homes or businesses in the city and also recently announced a similar partnership with the Westwego Police Department in Jefferson Parish.

Crime cameras are placed on private property, pointed towards a public street or park, and connect to the host’s broadband Internet connection to transmit a video feed to the Project NOLA control room.

Often recording over 27x higher resolution than typical surveillance systems, those who host a Project NOLA HD crime camera may view and record their camera’s feed via compatible smart phones, iPads, tablets, and PCs.

Much like Project NOLA’s New Orleans program, an HD crime camera would be placed on a home or business in St. Bernard Parish and the video may be used by law enforcement in the event of a crime or crisis.

Participants who host a crime camera may view and record their own Project NOLA camera’s video feed.

A difference between the New Orleans-based program and the new one in St. Bernard is the Sheriff’s Office will have direct access to the cameras, allowing officers to view the live camera feeds for suspicious activity and to relay real-time supplemental information to units responding to an emergency.

Sheriff’s detectives or narcotics agents will also be able to directly access recordings of criminal incidents to identify suspects or vehicles used in crimes.

Such real-time video information provides footage to investigating officers before they even arrive at crime scenes.

Project NOLA has helped clear numerous investigations in New Orleans, ranging from homicide to theft, via arrest or an arrest warrant issued.

The group works extensively with property and business owners, churches and schools, civic groups, special improvement taxation districts and governmental entities.

Developed with a concern for privacy, the Project NOLA crime camera system only maintains recorded video footage for about 10 days before being overwritten. Only three Project NOLA staff members have access to the protected system, and each staffer has signed a nondisclosure agreement.

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Annual children’s workshop and safety event to be held at Chalmette Home Depot on Sat., Oct. 4, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with Sheriff’s Office, Fire Dept., others to display items

An annual children’s workshop and safety event will be held at the Chalmette Home Depot store on Saturday, Oct. 4, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring games, face-painting, food and special items displayed from local agencies including the Sheriff’s Office, the Fire Department, Parish Homeland Security and others.

Children of all ages, accompanied by parents or guardians, can participate in the free annual event, said officials at the Home Depot store on West Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette.

The session includes workshops where children are shown how to make things.

Special items will also be on display for children. Sheriff James Pohlmann said various equipment will be shown by the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Parish Fire Department officials said they will bring a safety house to show kids how to drop and roll on the floor to escape smoke in a burning building.

Also, an antique auto display will again be held in the parking lot.

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Man booked with attempted murder after firing a shotgun in the direction of two younger men who weren’t struck

A Violet man has been booked with attempted murder and other charges after firing a shotgun in the direction of two younger men who weren’t struck, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Rodney Bailey, 57, 6224 4th St., was booked Sept. 14 with two counts of attempted murder, illegal use of a weapon and aggravated assault. He is being held in St. Bernard Parish Prison in lieu of bond set at $20,000.

Bailey told investigating deputies he hadn’t been trying to kill the men but wanted them to know he wasn’t playing around in an earlier exchange with them.

Sheriff’s deputies seized a shotgun at Bailey’s home after the incident that happened about 4 p.m.

Two Violet men, 26 and 22, respectively, said Bailey shot at them, but neither was injured, the sheriff said.

The men said that a few minutes before the incident they had been talking and smoking a cigarette with Bailey, then had left but soon returned to Bailey’s porch and knocked on his door.

They said Bailey opened the door and told them to leave but they thought he was joking around and they stayed. Soon Bailey came to a window holding a shotgun and again told them to get off his porch, they told deputies.

They left but Bailey came outside 10 minutes later with the gun and the men exchanged words with him before Bailey aimed the shotgun and shot at them from about 50 yards away, the men said. Leaves fell from a tree above them but they weren’t hit, they said.

Rodney Bailey’s brother, Darryl Bailey, said his brother had fired the gun but hadn’t aimed it at the men, then had put the gun back in the residence.

When questioned by deputies before his arrest, Rodney Bailey admitted he fired but hadn’t been trying to kill the men, saying he wanted them to know he wasn’t playing around.

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17-year-old male booked with sex act in a public library while watching porn on the Internet

A 17-year-old St. Bernard Parish male has been booked with obscenity for committing a sex act in a public library while watching porn on the Internet, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Henry Stafford 3, 1821 Robert Drive in eastern St. Bernard, was arrested Saturday, Sept. 13 in the library in the re-opened old Parish Courthouse at 1201 Bayou Road, the sheriff said.

A library employee reported just before 3 p.m. that a male was acting suspiciously and apparently had been looking at porn on a laptop computer. When a sheriff’s deputy arrived the employee said she had seen the teen-ager sitting at a table in front of a computer and his pants had been down.

Under questioning by the deputy, Stafford first said he was looking at a new video game. But when informed he was suspected of watching porn and committing a sex act with his pants down he admitted it, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

After further questioning by a sheriff’s detective, Stafford was taken to St. Bernard Parish Prison and booked with obscenity.

He was being held in lieu of bond set at $2,500.

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St. Bernard Anti-drug Coalition tries to fight drug abuse and its toll on the parish; group urges residents to “be a life saver’’ by getting involved

Several members of the non-profit St. Bernard Community Anti-drug Coalition recently attended a national conference in Washington, D. C., to learn about community-wide procedures and programs to reduce alcohol and drug abuse.

That’s just one of the recent activities the Coalition has been involved in as it starts to take concrete steps to galvanize a parish-wide push to reduce drug abuse and the toll it takes on St. Bernard Parish.

The attendees at the national conference were Board Chairman Daniel Schneider, board member Charles Cassar of the school system and Program Director Joseph Salande. Also attending were two students from Chalmette High School, Macie Graf and Madison Martin.

More than a thousand members from different anti-drug coalitions across the country were also there.

The “Community Coalitions of America” works towards helping communities learning environmental, community-wide strategies to address alcohol and drug abuse through educational and public awareness programs.

Workshops were broken down into two segments. The primary portions were for the volunteers and staffers of the various coalitions to supply helpful information regarding reducing under-age drinking and drug abuse. The goal of the workshops were to aid the members to return to their communities with information to determine what issues relative to drug abuse are problematic in their specific areas, and how best to address those problem on a community-wide basis.

Also included in the program was the Youth Initiative workshops, whereby youth and young adults learned classroom and community-wide strategic planning to address youth drug use.

While most of our youth don’t use illicit substances, they do eventually enter a grown-up world and are exposed to dangerous behaviors from multiple sources, Schneider and Salande said. The workshops were intended to give youth the tools to deal with these challenges in the future. For additional information about the St. Bernard Community Anti-drug Coalition, check out the group on Facebook at St. Bernard Community Coalition @ Facebook.com.

A Coalition office is located in the parish government complex at 8201 West Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette and the grou’s phone number is 504-278-4308.

To receive periodic updates on Coalition activities and important information, contact Program Director Joseph Salande at [email protected] to be added to our email list.

Meetings of the Coalition board are open to the public and are held at 9:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday of each month.

Starting in October, the meetings will be in a conference room at the Docville officers of the Meraux Foundation at 5128 E. St. Bernard Highway at Violet.

Residents are urged to attend and learn what they can do to take part in future events aimed at activities for young people in St. Bernard Parish. Community-wide forums on topics such as addictive disorders and resources available for families in need of finding rehab facilities for a loved one will also be held.

In the past year the Coalition has received an initial federal grant for the grou’s start-up and and a larger grant proposal is in the works. The group is also working on obtaining a 501 C-3 non-profit status that would for receiving contributions.

Coming soon, using the themes “We are all in this together,’’ and “Be a Life Saver,’’ there will be the distribution of a community resolution to churches, schools and other organizations stressing the need for a unified effort toward prevention and educuational efforts to reduce drug abuse in St. Bernard Parish.

The group’s logo will be the image of a live saver to drive home the message.

“We want people, especially students, to be advocates for change,’’ said Schneider, a pharmacist who lost his son to drug violence years ago. “We want them to have a way to share information if they see drug use. We are telling them they are saving a life.’’

Sheriff James Pohlmann is part of the Coalition and has stressed a need to change the culture attitude that it is cool to use drugs. It is drug use that drives property crimes as addicts steal to get money for their next high. The sheriff has emphasized the need to get help for users and imprison those who sell drugs.

Like most of the nation as a whole, St. Bernard has also experienced an increase in youth alcohol abuse, illicit drug use and prescription medication abuse. With that increase comes the increased potential for crime in our neighborhoods, disruption of families, and an overall negative effect on the culture of St. Bernard Parish.

The St. Bernard Community Anti-drug Coalition was founded more than a year ago by Schneider.

Working with Sheriff Pohlmann, they could see that more could be done to address the drug abuse problem in St. Bernard.

While the school system, law enforcement, mental health agencies and volunteer agencies do exemplary work combating these issues within their own sectors, one large gap is that all these groups work independently of each other without any one organization working in tandem and collaborating with all these groups.

A year ago, through the efforts of these individuals, a federal grant was applied for and received from SAMHSA (the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) to organize, and put into place the infrastructure to form a fully functional community-wide anti-drug coalition.

That is where the St. Bernard Community Coalition came into being.

Officials said a goal of the Coalition is to aid our citizens to gain information about and access to resources available.

Primarily, this group is a drug prevention organization which has and will continue to collect data from multiple segments of the community and identify our biggest concerns. Following that research, an action plan will be devised based on community-wide strategies to address these problems.

The best example of community-wide strategies is the anti-smoking campaigns that started years ago. According to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking rates have dropped in the United States by half from 1965 to 2006, in large part because of anti-smoking campaigns bringing attention to the health problems involved.

That was done by implementing community-wide strategies and changes by having a strong media presence, hosting local events, and even local ordinance change to effect the exposure that our youth gets to alcohol and drugs.

The St. Bernard Coalition has an Executive Committee that consists of 12 various sectors of the community with each one having their own unique perspective and skill set.

These members are: school representative, parent, law enforcement, healthcare provider, media, volunteer organization, youth, government, religious, business, mental health, and youth serving organization.

While this committee is the organizational structure of the Coalition, the largest and most important sector of this group are the citizens of St. Bernard Parish. There is no membership card required or special vote to be involved.

“This is our community and our children, and working together, we can all be life-savers,’’ Schneider said. In the future, we will have various activities, town hall meetings, events and we invite you to grow with us, he said.

 

Resources for drug abuse prevention or rehabilitation:

Sheriff’s Office – 271-2501; hotline for tips on suspected drug activity – 271-3673

Professional low cost drug testing: 504-278-4455

Web sites available: www.drugfreeamerica.org; www.sbso.org

Metropolitan Human Services District state agency: 504-568-3130

24-Hour Crisis Line: 504-826-2675

Al-ateen support services: 1-800-352-9996 or 1-888-425-2666

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Helpline and Treatment: 1-800-234-0420

National Drug Information treatment and referral hotline: 1-800-662-4357

National Hopeline National network crisis line for suicide prevention: 1-800-784-2433

Youth America hotline (Counseling for teens by teens) 1-877-968-8454

Celebration Church in Arabi: 504-267-4254

Cope Line: 504-269-COPE or 1-800-749-COPE or 211

Medicaid Assistance: 1-888-6207 or www.new.dhh.louisiana,gov

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National Night Out Against Crime to be held Tuesday, Oct. 14; Call (504) 278-7628 to register a party and a deputy will come out to give crime prevention tips

Holding the National Night Out Against Crime in cooler weather, instead of in August as it was done for years will take place again this year in St. Bernard Parish, with the celebration to be held Tuesday night, Oct. 14, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

This year marks the 31th annual celebration of National Night Out Against Crime.

St. Bernard residents should call Capt. Charles Borchers at (504) 278-7628 to register any gathering of residents that night and a sheriff’s deputy will be sent to give crime prevention tips and answer any questions, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

“We have seen a good response to our decision three years to move National Night Out from its past dates in early August to mid-October,’’ the sheriff said. “The weather is so much more pleasant and fun for families to be outside with others.”

Sheriff Pohlmann added, “We encourage getting together as a way to show that people have taken a stand against crime and intend to watch out for each other’s property.’’

Some 30 group events were held in St. Bernard last year, some at churches and public places as well at private homes.

“I feel we are winning the fight against crime’’ in St. Bernard, the sheriff said, evidenced by extremely low numbers of violent incidents – especially random ones involving people who don’t know one another.

The sheriff said anyone who sees something suspicious happening in their area should quickly call the Sheriff’s Office at (504) 271-2501 and try to give a description of people and vehicles involved. Narcotics activity can be reported either to the same number or anonymously to the sheriff’s drug hotline at 271-DOPE, which is 271-3673. All calls will be acted upon.

Capt. Borchers, who also heads the Reserve Division, Neighborhood Watch programs and coordinates the free classes held for Citizens Police Academy, said Night Out Against Crime remains a good way to get to know neighbors.

“St. Bernard needs everyone to pull together to remain a safe place to raise a family,” Borchers said.

Borchers can also be called to organize a Neighborhood Watch group or sign up for the next free session he gives in December on “Refuse to be a Victim,’’ a lectures which gives personal safety tips and advice on the best types of locks and light timers for homes and businesses.

National Night Out Against Crime is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW) and was introduced in 1984 to strengthen participation in local crime prevention efforts.

Last year’s National Night Out campaign involved more than 30 million nationally, including residents, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses and at military bases.

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Sheriff’s Office partners again with Walgreens in Chalmette on Saturday, Sept. 27 for a Prescription Drug Take-Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the store parking lot; Don’t let drugs fall into wrong

With an average of 110 Americans dying each day from prescription drug overdoses, St. Bernard Sheriff James Pohlmann is urging residents not to let their unused prescription medications such as pain-killer pills fall into the wrong hands and ruin someone’s life.

Instead, turn them in to the Sheriff’s Office from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27 in the parking lot of Walgreens pharmacy in Chalmette at Judge Perez Drive and Paris Road, where a drug take-back day will be held.

Sponsored nationally by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, drug take-back days have helped keep prescription drugs off the street, the sheriff said, which is important because studies show young people often first abuse prescription drugs after stealing them from medicine chests at the homes of relatives or parents of friends.

For the third time since April 2013, the Sheriff’s Office is partnering with Walgreens to provide an easily accessible place for area residents to turn in expired or no longer needed prescription medications to make sure they don’t fall into the wrong hands.

The two previous drug take-back days at Walgreens have been very successful, with more than 100 pounds of medications turned in by the public, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

“Don’t let young people get hooked on pills they find while visiting you,’’ Sheriff Pohlmann said, and “don’t throw medication in the garbage where it can be found or down the toilet where it can end up affecting wildlife or seafood in marshes.’’

The national average of 110 Americans dying daily from overdoses on prescription medication is an alarming number, Sheriff Pohlmann said, and St. Bernard Parish residents have been among the victims over the years.

Officers from the sheriff’s Special Investigations Division, commanded by Maj. Chad Clark, will be at the Walgreens parking lot from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to collect medications.

The Sheriff’s Office has participated for several years in the national drug take-back day and locally it was the Sheriff’s Office that began its own take-back day in 2009 called “Operation Medicine Cabinet,’’ which encouraged residents to clean out their medicine cabinets of old prescription drugs and turn them in to the department.

St. Bernard residents are reminded they also can call the sheriff’s 271-DOPE hot line (271-3673) any time to turn in prescription drugs between official drug take-back days. An officer will call them back to make arrangements for collection.

Also, residents should call the same number to anonymously report any suspected illegal drug activity in St. Bernard Parish. All calls will be acted upon.

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