LAKE COUNTY — The second annual Robinson Rancheria Boys and Girls Club prescription medication recovery program ended last week after nearly 54,000 pills and capsules were collected.
The medications were turned over to Lake County District Attorney”s Office investigator Brian Martin and booked into evidence for destruction at the office”s evidence facility pending a court order of destruction from the superior court.
The Robinson Rancheria Federally Commissioned Police Department was one of several program sponsors.
Frank Gudmundson, Boys and Girls Club director and reserve police officer for the Robinson police department, started the program to help get discarded and unused medications that could be used for recreational purposes out of circulation and destroyed.
Gudmundson traveled to five Lake County fire stations on different dates and collected the miscellaneous pills and capsules.
The breakdown was 17,508 from the Lakeport station on June 13, 13,244 from the Kelseyville station on June 20, 18,600 from the Clearlake station on June 27, 2,000 from the Lucerne station on July 11 and 2,400 from the Upper Lake station July 18.
Unwanted medications can be dropped off for safe disposal year-round at any pharmacy or fire station.
