WDJT-TV
[Milwaukee, WI]
23 October 2013
by John Cuoco
MILWAUKEE- Hiding
drugs in candy appears to be a growing trend and the Wisconsin Poison center is
warning parents about it.
They said that
candy, specifically suckers and toffee, is being melted down and laced with
crushed prescription drugs or powered illicit drugs.
Stimulants such as
amphetamines have been discovered in the "treats".
The idea is that
the candy makes the drug hard to detect. […]
Lebanon Daily News
[PA]
28 October 2013
The Associated
Press
WEST CHESTER,
Pa.—Campus police say they've found 40 pounds of drug-laced candy at
state-owned West Chester University.
The Chester County
district attorney's office announced the seizure Monday and says charges will
be filed after lab tests confirm the candy contains THC, the active ingredient
in marijuana.
Deputy District
Attorney Patrick Carmody says there's no indication students planned to
distribute the candy to children for Halloween. Authorities believe the candy
was meant to be shared and sold among university students. […]
KDKA-TV
[Pittsburgh, PA]
28 October 2013
Ralph Iannotti
SCOTTDALE (KDKA) —
In Westmoreland County a small, razor-like blade was discovered in a package of
M&M candies by a trick-or-treater.
It was given to
12-year-old Matthew Hernley, when he was out trick-or-treating with some of his
friends Sunday afternoon. […]
Nashua Telegraph
[NH]
1 November 2013
Dean Shalhoup
NASHUA – The razor
blade found in a bad of candy turned out to be the blade from a broken pencil
sharpener inside a child’s backpack.
Nashua Sgt. Randy
Dumais says the boy was using his school backpack to collect Halloween candy.
After talking to the boy, police determined the blade came from the broken
sharpener. […]
TB News Watch
[Thunder Bay, ON]
1 November 2013
By tbnewswatch.com
City police are
investigating a report of a sewing needle being found in Halloween treats.
Officials with the
Thunder Bay Police Service report that the complainant’s children went out
trick or treating in the Kakabeka Falls Village. When the children returned
home their candy was checked and the needle was discovered. […]
NBC4 Washington
[DC]
1 November 2013
Authorities
believe this is an isolated incident
Authorities in
Calvert County, Md., say they received a report of a sewing needle found inside
the wrapper of a Hershey's chocolate bar.
The report came
from the St. Leonard area. The sheriff's office said around mid-day Friday that
they believe this is an isolated incident. […]
Times Herald [Port
Huron, MI]
1 November 2013
A wrapped insulin
needle found in a bag of Halloween candy in Algonac appears to have gotten
there accidentally, according to a press release from the St. Clair County
Sheriff Department. […]
WJHG-TV [Panama
City Beach, FL]
1 November 2013
LYNN HAVEN -
Panama City Beach police say a child lied about finding a razor blade in a
piece of Halloween candy.
When a Lynn Haven
girl got home from trick-or-treating in Panama City Beach, she unwrapped a
Snickers bar and bit into it. She told her mom there was a piece of a razor
blade inside. […]
Observer-Dispatch
[Utica, NY]
1 November 2013
CAMDEN — Camden
police are investigating the instance of a razor blade found in a child’s bag
of Halloween candy.
Police received a
complaint Thursday night about a utility razor blade that had been found
amongst a child’s candy, according to the Camden police Facebook page.
Nobody was injured
and the razor appears as though it was dropped into the bag, not put into any
candy, police said. […]
Brockville
Recorder [ON]
1 November 2013
By Ronald Zajac,
Recorder and Times
A 15-year-old boy
ended up with a needle in his lip after biting into a piece of candy on
Halloween night, city police reported Friday
The candy had
apparently been bought at a local store and was not acquired during
trick-or-treating, added Insp. Scott Fraser. […]
WPXI-TV [Pittsburgh, PA]
1 November 2013
SHALER, Pa. — A western Pennsylvania school issued a
warning after a drug discovery inside a child's Halloween candy bag.
Officials called parents to tell them that an
elementary student found a pill with candy obtained during a class Halloween
party. […]
Dr. Wesley Shipley, the district superintendent,
confirmed to Channel 11 News that a Lexapro pill was found in one child's candy
bag. Lexapro is a prescription drug used to treat depression. […]
KOLO-TV [Reno, NV]
1 November 2013
Tonja Hamilton says she was angry and terrified when
she discovered what looked like prescription pain medication in with her son's
Halloween candy. She says they were in a waded up pharmacy bag, about 10 pills
with a lollipop. Police arrived quickly after she reported the shocking
discovery. "He said he looked them up and said that they were just
vitamins," explains Hamilton[.] […]
The Salinas Californian
2 November 2013
Written by Allison
Gatlin
A 32-year-old
Salinas woman may have experienced an unwanted acid trip at the hands of
tainted Halloween candy, according to Salinas police Cmdr. Dave Crabill.
The woman, who
hasn’t been identified, was trick-or-treating with her children and friends
between 5:40 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday evening in the Creekbridge neighborhood. […]
KSBW-TV
2 November 2013
Candy bar came
from Creek Bridge neighborhood on Halloween, family says
KRNV-TV [Reno,
Nevada]
1 November 2013
FERNLEY, Nev.
(KRNV & MyNews4.com) - The Lyon County Sheriff's Department said today
investigators believe a report of tainted Halloween candy from the Southwest
Meadows subdivision is an isolated case confined to one child and two pieces of
candy in the child's trick or treat bag.
Law enforcement
was called around 7:30 Halloween night after Acting Lt. Shawn Clanton said,
"It was store bought candy and one of them had a piece of plastic in it
which was taken out by the child. The
child ate the candy anyway. The other
piece of candy had a stick pin in it." […]
Global BC [Canada]
1 November 2013
By Amy Judd
Global News
It’s a reminder to
check the candy your kids brought home from Halloween trick-or-treating
yesterday.
Langley resident
Tanya Verbeek says her brother-in-law found a pin in her nieces’s KitKat bar. […]
WLWT-TV [Cincinnati,
OH]
2 November 2013
Authorities
confirm Facebook post was hoax
AMELIA, Ohio
—After a rumor spread on Facebook, many were worried that some candy had been
tampered with and passed out during trick-or-treating Friday in an Amelia
neighborhood.
According to
Amelia police, the post was a hoax.
Concerned
residents reached out to police and WLWT Saturday because of the following
Facebook post:
"any one that
took your kids to Amelia (Quail Creek) PLEASE check your kids candy REALLY
GOOD! Candy that was in wrappers like Tootsie rolls, gum and smarties, had
something put in them that put 6 kids in Clermony Mercy ER!"
Police said
representatives with the local hospitals have confirmed no such cases have been
reported.
After confirming
that the post was untrue, police said they tracked down the person who created
the original post and ordered them to remove it. […]
Hannibal
Courier-Post [MO]
2 November 2013
Like countless
parents around the country, Amber Dolbeare of New London took her children
trick or treating Thursday night. Dolbeare claims her youngsters were given
candy containing poison during one of their stops in Hannibal.
Dolbeare didn’t
pay much attention to the candy her youngsters had been given until her son
brought to her a Snickers bar that he had just bitten into. Hanging out of the
candy bar was a light green pellet, approximately a quarter inch in length.
“When I pulled it
out, it looked like rat poison,” said Dolbeare. […]
KOAT-TV
[Albuquerque, NM]
1 November 2013
Some children
brought home chocolate, others anti-abortion messages
By Regina Ruiz
KOB-TV
[Albuquerque, NM]
1 November 2013
By: Stuart Dyson,
KOB Eyewitness News 4
You’re thinking
about a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup or maybe some Junior Mints, and right there
in your pile of Halloween candy comes a message straight from the abortion
rights battlefield. That’s the unexpected treat a few Albuquerque
trick-or-treaters got Thursday night – a message from the Right to Life
movement, just in time for the city’s special abortion rights election.
“I am not a clump
of cells,” the card with an image of a fetus proclaims. “I am a human being.”
Another one asks “Am I not human?” […]
Imperial Valley
Press [El Centro, CA]
2 November 2013
Valley Police Beat: Needle found among child’s Halloween candy
El Centro
Needle found among
child’s Halloween candy
A small diabetic
needle in its packaging was discovered in the candy bag of young girl in the
400 block of Orange Avenue at 7 p.m. Friday, according to El Centro police
logs. The needle was disposed of at the police station by the child’s mother.
Global BC [Canada]
3 November 2013
By Yuliya Talmazan
The RCMP in Prince
Rupert are urging parents to examine their children’s Halloween candy after a
metal pin was discovered in a chocolate bar by a vigilant parent on Friday.
Brenna Stanley
found a metal pin in a Coffee Crisp chocolate bar that one of her three
children brought home after going trick-or-treating in their neighbourhood. […]
Press-Enterprise
[Riverside, CA]
3 November 2013
by Nikie Johnson
A Moreno Valley
child who showed symptoms of ingesting illegal drugs may have been sickened by
eating Halloween candy that was tampered with, according to sheriff’s
officials. […]
The Tennessean
5 November 2013
Written by Andy Humbles
Lebanon’s Jerri Chaney describes herself as a little
overprotective with her 6-year-old daughter.
That’s why she checked the candy her daughter
collected trick-or-treating Friday. She never expected to find anything
dangerous.
But the bag revealed part of a loose razor blade when
it was dumped out on Chaney’s bed. Lebanon police are investigating how it got
there along with a separate complaint about a sewing needle discovered inside a
Tootsie Roll collected in a nearby area on Lebanon’s west side. […]
CTV Saskatoon [Saskatchewan, Canada]
5 November 2013
Trick-or-treaters in Martensville might not want to
eat the red ones last.
Police are now investigating allegations that someone
in Martensville handed out boxes of Halloween candy with cat feces in them.
Eleven-year-old Shamus Sawatsky says when he opened up
a box of Smarties after a night of trick-or-treating, he found cat feces
inside. […]