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Sarasota News Leader April 26, 2013 Page 64 NATIONAL DRUG TURN-IN EVENT SET FOR SATURDAY Law enforcement agencies throughout Sarasota County will participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) national event to "take back" and properly dispose of prescription medication on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has announced. to publicize the permanent option for proper disposal. The Sheriff's Office has permanent drop boxes at the Criminal Justice Center, 2071 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota — which is open 24 hours a day — and at the south county office, 4531 State Road 776, Venice, where the hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., a news release notes. Officers will dispose of the medications, and participation is completely anonymous, said Mike Kessie, New College of Florida police chief, in a news release. New College Campus Police also will be collecting unwanted, unused or expired prescription drugs on April 27 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Campus Police Station, 501 College Drive, the college has announced. College Drive is one block north of University Parkway on U.S. 41, on the College's bayfront campus, the release notes. The public should park in the Heiser Natural Sciences lot opposite the police station. Contact Chief Kessie at 487-4210 or mkessie@ncf.edu with any questions. The Sarasota Police Department, Venice Police Department and North Port Police Department also have permanent drop boxes in each of their lobbies and are participating in Saturday's event as well, the release points "This initiative addresses a vital public safety out. and public health issue," the Sheriff's Office "Medication turn-in is always anonymous," release continues. "Prescription drug abuse the release says. "Prescription and over-the- rates in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are counter solid dosage medications such as the number of accidental poisonings and overtablets and capsules are accepted." While all doses due to these drugs. Studies show that a of these drop boxes are available to the pub- majority of abused prescription drugs are oblic year-round, the release adds, the agencies tained from family and friends, including from participate in the national take-back initiative the home medicine cabinet," it points out. MAN ARRESTED FOR LEWD ACTIVITY ON SIESTA BEACH The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested a 69-year-old Illinois man for exposing himself to teenage girls swimming at Siesta Key Beach. to Tom Petcher of Hillsboro, IL, after two 14-year-old girls said they were swimming in the Gulf of Mexico when they noticed he had his swim trunks around his ankles, a Sheriff's Office report says. They added that he tried Around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, a to brush the legs of one girl with his buttocks, Sarasota County lifeguard alerted deputies according to the report.