http://www.lfpress.com/2012/10/31/razor-found-in-treat-bag
The
London Free
Press [ON]
31
October 2012
By
Randy Richmond, The London
Free Press
London police are warning parents to be check their
children's candy after a double-sided razor blade was found in a trick-or-treat
bag on Hallowe'en.
The
blade was wrapped in waxed paper, police said. [...]
http://www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/Trick-or-stick-Needle-found-in-childs-candy-bag-176698811.html
WKYT-TV
[Lexington, KY]
31
October 2012
WINCHESTER, Ky. (WKYT) - [...] Police tell us
one 8-year-old girl found something unexpected in her trick-or-treat bag on the
road she lives on in Winchester and that surprise sent her to the hospital.
A
medical needle in her trick or treat bag is what Winchester police tell us one trick-or-treater
found instead of candy. [...]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226386/Primary-school-children-given-cocaine-instead-sweets-household-went-trick-treating.html
The
Daily Mail [UK]
1
November 2012
By
Martin Robinson
A
pair of primary school children were given cocaine instead of sweets when they
went trick or treating.
Plastic
bags containing the white powder were handed to youngsters taking part in
traditional Halloween fun in Royton, Greater Manchester, at around 7.50pm
yesterday. [...]
Donald
Junior Green, 23, has been charged with possession of Class A drugs and is due
before Oldham Magistrates' Court tomorrow morning. [...]
http://www.rrstar.com/news/x2053817287/Needle-found-in-Loves-Park-child-s-Halloween-candy
Rockford Register Star [IL]
1
November 2012
By
Jeff Kolkey
LOVES PARK -- A child was not injured when a needle was found
inside the package of his Starburst Halloween candy from trick-or-treating
Wednesday night. [...]
http://www.wmur.com/news/nh-news/Trick-or-treater-opens-Halloween-candy-containing-pill-in-Bedford/-/9857858/17224694/-/d5a6u1/-/index.html
WMUR-TV
[Manchester, NH]
1
November 2012
Police
reminding parents to check all Halloween candy
BEDFORD,
N.H. -- A trick-or-treater found a piece of
Halloween candy containing a pill in Bedford
Wednesday night, according to police.
The
child had been trick-or-treating on Technology
Drive in Bedford
Wednesday night.
Police
said the candy in question had been packaged to look like Hershey’s Kiss but
instead contained an unidentified pill. [...]
http://www.19actionnews.com/story/19971246/pill-found-in-halloween-candy
WOIO-TV
[Cleveland, OH]
1
November 2012
ASHTABULA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) - Police are warning parents to check their
kids Halloween candy after a report of someone handing out a tainted treat.
Andover
Police tell 19 Action News a 13-year-old found a pill stuffed in a pack of
Smarties, about 30 minutes after the village's Trick-or-Treat ended. The teen's
parents immediately called police.
The
pill is described as a round, white Excedrin Migraine pill with
"L430" stamped on one side. [...]
http://www.therepublic.com/view/local_story/Police-find-metal-staple-in-Ha_1351782707
The
Republic [Columbus, IN]
1
November 2012
COLUMBUS,
Ind. -- A 5-year-old boy found a heavy metal staple in a piece of Halloween
candy Wednesday night, in what police believe was an incident of intentional
tampering. [...]
Upon
closer examination, the piece of metal appears to be a heavy staple, about an
inch long, that was straightened and pushed into the candy. The candy wrapper also had a hole in it.
[...]
http://commercial-news.com/local/x1200674982/Parent-finds-metal-shard-in-childs-Halloween-candy
The
Commercial-News [Danville, IL]
1
November 2012
STAFF
REPORT
Commercial-News
HOOPESTON
-- Police are investigating where a trick-or-treater received a candy bar found
to have part of piece of metal inside.
A
28-year-old Rossville man reported the tampered candy to Hoopeston police
Wednesday night after trick-or-treating with his daughter in the Hoopeston and
Rossville area, according to a release by Hoopeston Police Chief Mark
Drollinger.
According
to Drollinger, the man discovered the candy bar -- which appeared to have been
opened and then resealed with tape. Inside the wrapper, the man told police he
found a metal shard. The piece of metal was not inserted into the candy bar.
[...]
http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/Chilliwack+parents+urged+check+Halloween+candy/7485245/story.html
Chilliwack Times [BC]
1
November 2012
Possible
isolated incident of tampered candy
By
Paul J. Henderson, The Times
[...]
At approximately 8 p.m. on Halloween, Chilliwack RCMP responded to a complaint
of a piece of candy with a wrapper that looked to have been tampered with in
some way.
Police
have seized the candy and sent it to a lab for testing.
"Right
now, we are dealing with a possible isolated incident, said Cst. Tracy Wolbeck
in a press release issued Thursday afternoon. "That's important to stress,
because we know there have been a number of posts on Facebook regarding claims
of candy tampering in the Chilliwack
area. We urge people using social media not to spread unsubstantiated
allegations, particularly those of a criminal nature, but instead to use social
media to share more practical and common-sense advice." [...]
http://www.indystar.com/article/20121101/NEWS/121101029/Mooresville-parents-warned-needle-Halloween-candy
Indianapolis Star [IN]
1
November 2012
Written
by
Jill
Disis
The
Mooresville School
District has put Morgan
County parents on alert
after a family found a needle in a piece of Halloween candy.
The
Morgan County Sheriff's Department alerted the school district, saying parents
found the needle inside a Kit Kat bar. [...]
http://www.centralkynews.com/winchestersun/news/ws-police-needle-found-in-clark-county-girls-halloween-candy-20121101,0,1172711.story
The
Winchester Sun
[KY]
1
November 2012
By
Casey Castle
An
8-year-old girl spent part of her Halloween holiday at the hospital after
getting stuck by a needle in her trick-or-treat bag Wednesday night.
Melanie
Gross, the child’s mother, said the girl had visited 10 or 11 houses and was
swinging her bag when it hit her leg. The girl complained about being hurt.
“I
looked in the bag and there was an exposed needle,” Gross said. [...]
http://www.somdnews.com/article/20121102/NEWS/711019824/1057/halloween-candy-was-not-laced-with-drugs-police-say&template=southernMaryland
Southern Maryland Newspapers Online
2
November 2012
Believe
teen may have ingested cocaine on his own
By
KATIE FITZPATRICK
Staff
writer
Claims
that a Lusby teenager ate a piece of candy laced with drugs he received during
trick-or-treating Wednesday night quickly spread throughout the community and
incited fear in county residents, but proved to be false after a Calvert County
Sheriff’s Office investigation. [...]
http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/Tainted-Halloween-Candy-on-Panama-City-Beach-176957401.html
WJHG-TV
[Panama City Beach, FL]
2
November 2012
[...]
A parent called Bay
County sheriff's
deputies, reporting they'd found a prescription pill stuck inside of a candy
bar. The pill, which is a medication of high blood pressure called Prazosin
Hydrochloride, was stuck inside of a 3 Musketeers candy bar. [...]
http://www.live5news.com/story/19983976/mom-finda-razor-in-daughters-halloween-candy
WMBF-TV
[Charleston, SC]
2
November 2012
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - It's an urban legend come to life, a razor
in a Halloween candy bucket.
Ricki
Worrell of Myrtle Beach
said she took her 10-year-old daughter trick-or-treating down maybe two or
three of the streets in her neighborhood, Myrtle Beach Golf and Yacht Club,
before calling it a night.
When
they returned home, Worrell says they dumped all the candy collected out on the
table to see what her daughter had received, and with several larger items in
the bucket, she didn't immediately notice the BIC razor.
"I
could not believe my eyes," Worrell comments.
The
razor that her daughter came home with appeared to still be in it's original
package [....]
http://www.therepublic.com/view/local_story/Mother-admits-child-never-ate-_1351920787
The
Republic [Columbus, IN]
3
November 2012
By
Jennifer Willhite
A Columbus mother has
changed her story about a 5-year-old son biting into a one-inch metal staple in
his Halloween candy. Now police are trying to determine whether the initial
report was a hoax.
The
mother had accompanied her son trick-or-treating on Halloween in Columbus and told police
that night her child later bit into a Tootsie Roll and felt a metal staple in
his mouth. But during interviews over the course of Thursday, Police spokesman
Lt. Matt Myers said discrepancies surfaced in the story.
Police
talked to the boy and the mother separately Thursday, when the son indicated
that he’d never eaten a piece of tainted candy. Afterward, Myers said the
mother acknowledged this.
The
mother’s latest account is that a female friend of hers found the candy wrapper
Halloween night on the floor. When that individual picked up the wrapper, there
was a staple in it.
http://www.610cktb.com/news/local/story.aspx?ID=1807633
610
CKTB [St. Catharines, ON]
2
November 2012
It
was no treat for a St. Catharines
mother who discovered over the counter medication in her son's Halloween candy
bag.
Sarah
Stevens tells 610 CKTB news, when she went through the candy her six year old
son brought home Wednesday night after trick or treating in the city's south
end, she discovered three packages of pain medication, including Advil liquid
gels and Robaxecet, a pain reliever for back pain. [...]
http://cityofmentor.com/2012/11/police-report-finding-tampered-box-of-grape-nerds/
City
of Mentor [OH]
5
November 2012
On
Sunday, November 4, 2012, the Mentor Police Department received a report
regarding contaminated candy. A citizen took her child Trick or Treating on
Sunday evening. She checked the candy once at home and found a box of Wonka
Grape Nerds candy with the top bent back but still glued shut. She opened the
box and found it half filled with staples and not candy. [...]
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/11/report_marijuana_found_in_kids.html
The
Grand Rapids
Press [MI]
3
November 2012
By
Angie Jackson
IONIA COUNTY, MI -- A Palo mother discovered that her 4-year-old
received more than candy when trick-or-treating on Oct. 31.
The
Ionia Sentinel-Standard reports the woman found a "small, cellophane
baggie with a green leafy substance inside" in her child's trick-or-treat
bag. She told police she was unsure where the baggie and its contents
originated.
A
test by the Ionia Department of Public Safety confirmed the substance was
marijuana. [...]
http://wcsi.whiterivernews.com/templates/localnews_temp.asp?id=6087&storyno=4
WCSI
Radio [Columbus, IN]
8
November 2012
A
case involving the alleged tampering of Halloween candy will be sent to the
Bartholomew County Prosecutor's Office early next week.
Columbus police were sent to a home on Halloween night
regarding a 5-year-old boy allegedly finding a piece of metal inside a piece of
candy he received while trick-or-treating. Police spokesperson Lt. Matt Myers
says the boy's mother told police that her son was eating an orange Tootsie
Roll when he discovered the object. The boy was not injured. [...]
http://www.somdnews.com/article/20121109/NEWS/711069947/1074/tests-show-no-drugs-in-halloween-candy-teen-s-system&template=southernMaryland
Southern Maryland Newspapers Online
9
November 2012
By
KATIE FITZPATRICK, Staff writer
Tests
that showed illegal drugs were found in a 16-year-old boy’s system after he ate
a piece of Halloween candy allegedly laced with drugs proved to be false after
confirmatory testing showed the original results were a false positive.
“It
was a false positive in the test,” said Calvert County Sheriff Mike Evans (R).
“[The teenager] did not have illegal drugs in his system. The information we
gave out was premature. We should have waited until we got the results back.”
[...]