The Lavaca Police Department will accept any unused or unwanted
prescription drugs in an effort to prevent pill abuse and
theft.

The Lavaca Police Department will accept any unused or unwanted
prescription drugs in an effort to prevent pill abuse and
theft.

Arkansas News Bureau

LITTLE ROCK — State law enforcement agencies collected nearly six tons of unwanted and expired medications during a national collection of unwanted and expired drugs, officials said Monday.

The 11,942 pounds of medications — about 16.6 million pills — were collected during the Oct. 29 Arkansas Take Back event, eclipsed the 4,500 pound of medications collected April 30.

In the past 14 months, about 12 tons of unwanted and expired drugs have been collected in three separate Take Back events in Arkansas. The events have coincided with national Take Back events.

“Along with monitoring and securing prescription medications, proper disposal is a very important part of keeping from them ever doing harm to everyone,” state Drug Director Fran Flener said Monday in a release.

If there’s one thing police, judges and prosecutors can agree on as being a major contributor to crime in Pine Bluff, it’s the use, and abuse of drugs.

If there’s one thing police, judges and prosecutors can agree on as being a major contributor to crime in Pine Bluff, it’s the use, and abuse of drugs.

A man who bailed out of a vehicle police were trying to stop Monday, then ran from officers until he was chased down was arrested after they saw him throw a backpack containing drugs into a ravine.

Two Van Buren High School students face criminal charges and one
of them is in the hospital after authorities found illegal drugs in
a student’s vehicle, a police spokesman said on Friday.

Several people associated with a group that pulled off home invasion robberies and sold drugs pleaded guilty in Washington County Circuit Court on Tuesday.

A teacher at a Van Buren middle school, who has since resigned,
was arrested Wednesday after police found drugs and drug
paraphernalia in his vehicle during a traffic stop.

A reported two-vehicle accident Thursday night resulted in the arrest of one driver when drugs were found in the vehicle he was driving.