The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs by hosting National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The public can bring their medications for disposal to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office at 5400 E. Broad Street in Lake Charles on Saturday, April 27th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
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ERIC SCOTT RADIO | LAKE CHARLES, LA. — On April 8, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office Vice detectives arrested Kari D. Johns, 38, 163 Summerwood Drive, Sulphur, after an investigation revealed she obtained controlled prescription medication by using forged prescription blanks.
An investigation revealed between November 2012 and January 2013, Johns obtained numerous prescription pills including Amphetamine Salts (CDS II), Hydrocodone (CDS III), and Carisoprodol (CDS IV) by utilizing numerous blank prescriptions from a local doctor. When the doctor, whose name was on the prescription, was contacted, it was revealed he did not authorize the prescriptions.
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ERIC SCOTT RADIO | LAKE CHARLES, LA. — On March 21, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office Vice detectives arrested Sherri J. Logan, 43, 6675 Highway 90, Lot # 40, Iowa, who was employed at a local doctors office, for obtaining CDS by fraud.
An investigation revealed since January 2001, Logan obtained over 28,385 prescription pills by utilizing numerous blank prescriptions from the local doctor she worked for to fill numerous prescriptions and also called out numerous prescriptions to local pharmacies without the doctor’s authorization.
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The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said Sunday afternoon that an autopsy on pop icon Whitney Houston’s body has been completed, but official results have been placed on hold, pending toxicology tests.
Los Angeles Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said at a press conference that the tests could take six to eight weeks to process.
Bottles of prescription drugs were found in the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel room where Whitney Houston’s lifeless body was discovered Saturday afternoon just hours before a huge Grammy party she was to attend, a report says. View full article »


















