Daily Mail [UK]
27 October 2017
New Jersey warns parents about marijuana-laced CANDY
being slipped to their children this Halloween while trick-or-treating
Associated Press
New Jersey is
warning parents to look out for people slipping their kids marijuana-laced
candy while trick-or-treating. But with no apparent evidence that's ever
happened, advocates for legalizing the drug say it's nothing more than a
Halloween scare tactic. […]
WTMJ-TV
[Milwaukee, WI]
28 October 2017
Area police departments issue
reports of tampered Halloween candy
[…] The Randolph
Police Department took a report of a child receiving candy that was tampered
with during trick or treating between 3 and 5 p.m. in the Dodge County village.
Police say a child
received a Now and Later hard candy that was believed to have been soaked in
motor oil or some other foreign substance. […]
WITI-TV [Milwaukee,
WI]
29 October 2017
Randolph police: Now and
Later candy not tampered with, after report it was soaked in motor oil
[…] In an update,
police said an investigation allowed officers to locate the residence where the
Now and Later candy was handed out during Trick or Treat on Saturday, and a
person at that home confirmed they had given out this brand of candy.
Police said “we
are confident” nothing was done by anyone at this home to tamper with or
contaminate this candy with any foreign substance.
The location where
this candy was purchased was also identified, and police said follow-up
investigation is underway to identify what, if any, foreign substance was
placed on the candy. […]
Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel [WI]
29 October 2017
Police investigate potential
candy tampering during trick-or-treating in Oconomowoc
CITY OF OCONOMOWOC
- Police are investigating a report of suspicious candy given out during
trick-or-treat on Saturday, Oct 28.
Nicholas Goeman
and his family were trick-or-treating when a woman allegedly approached them,
giving out individual Tootsie Rolls.
"The lady
went up to my 3-year-old and asked, 'Do you want a Tootsie Roll?' She dropped
it in the bucket," Goeman said.
Goeman said he
felt uneasy about the candy, and when he unwrapped the Tootsie Roll, it was
super sticky.
"I said to my
wife, something wasn't right," he said.
Goeman said he
handed it over to a firefighter he knew. According to Goeman, the firefighter
called him later and said he sliced open the candy and found a pill. Goeman
said the firefighter was handing out trick-or-treat candy at the time.
"I guess
somehow or someway, the firefighter lost it," Goeman said. […]
Menominee Tribal Police Department [WI]
30 October 2017
On Monday, October 30, 2017, the Menominee Tribal
Police Department received a complaint of a suspicious package located in a
child's Halloween Candy. A small yellow Ziploc type baggy containing
crystalline powder was located. The crystalline powder tested positive for
methamphetamine a.k.a (Meth).
The parent reported the children Trick or Treated in
the Keshena area on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
WFTS-TV [Tampa Bay, FL]
30 October 2017
Report: Prescription pill
found in local 3-year-old's Halloween candy
RIVERVIEW, Fla. - The Riverview Chamber of Commerce
has confirmed that a local mother filed a report stating that a prescription
pill was found in her 3-year-old's Halloween candy.
The Chamber says that the mother reportedly found a
Tramadol pill loosely in her son's bag after attending their Trick or Treat
Street event on Saturday. […]
WTIC-TV [Hartford, CT]
2 November 2017
Self-proclaimed ‘Halloween
lunatic’ of North Haven posts bail
A North Haven man accused of making disturbing claims
over social media that Halloween Candy will be poisoned appeared in Meriden
Superior Court Wednesday.
During the arraignment for 54-year-old Ronald
Przybylo, state prosecutors argued he is a safety risk to the public, while his
lawyer told the judge he will be seeking help with mental illness.
According to the police arrest warrant, Przybylo is
the self-proclaimed “Halloween lunatic.”
Police began an investigation into his behavior after a concerned,
anonymous citizen told police about a series of disturbing Facebook posts on
his page.
Two of the posts in question were made on October
30th. One read “This Halloween, will be
fun. Candy, filled with rat poison. The kids love it just as I love it! Happy
Halloween,” according to the arrest warrant.
Another post police list in the warrant read, “They
will come begging me for mercy, asking ME, why they should live? Ask your fake
God. Since He’s NOT REALL!!!!!! 50 in Vegas is nothing. My party is hell for you. And your skin will burn! Lucifer rules and
rocks and rolls…” […]
Duluth News Tribune [MN]
31 October 2017
Proctor woman finds pins in
Snickers bar
Candy Ellestad took one bite of the Snickers bar, and
along with the expected caramel, peanuts and milk chocolate felt metal in her
mouth.
“I moved my tongue around, and I started to pull the
pins out of my mouth,” the Proctor woman said on Tuesday.
Eventually, Ellestad discovered eight or nine pins, or
tiny nails, that she removed either from her mouth or from the uneaten portion
of the “fun size” candy bar. […]
Bathurst Police Force [NB]
31 October 2017
The Bathurst Police Force would like to warn the
public of a complaint of someone finding a nail in a candy bar that was picked
up during trick or treating. The candy was gathered from the Parkwood Heights
area although an exact address is unknown. […]
Havre de Grace Police Department [MD]
31 October 2017
Please look over your children's candy, this piece of
Kahlua candy was found by parents in Havre de Grace. They believe it is adult
candy with alcohol inside, they were unable to determine who gave it out but it
came from the Bulle Rock neighborhood. […]
Newcastle Herald [Australia]
1 November 2017
Police investigating after
youngster reportedly handed drugs at Blackalls Park while trick-or-treating
LAKE Macquarie police are investigating after a child
was handed what appears to be prescription medication while trick-or-treating
on Tuesday night.
Parent Ellouise Hawes said on Facebook her daughter
was handed a sealed plastic bag containing capsules during Halloween
festivities at Blackalls Park. […]
WVNS-TV [Ghent, WV]
1 November 2017
Police: Heroin Found in
Child's Trick-or-Treat Bag in Oak Hill
OAK HILL, WV (WVNS) - An investigation is underway in
Fayette County after heroin was found in a child's trick-or-treat bag. […]
Investigators performed a field test on the drug, and
preliminary results revealed it was heroin. Police said they will send the
substance to the State Police Crime Lab in Charleston for official
confirmation. […]
WSAZ-TV [Huntington, WV]
2 November 2017
UPDATE: Police say marijuana
found in trick-or-treat bag, not heroin after lab test
OAK HILL, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Oak Hill Police say the
substance found Tuesday night in a trick-or-treat bag is marijuana, not heroin
like what was originally reported. […]
KIVI-TV [Nampa, ID]
1 November 2017
Suspected pot found in Nampa
child's Halloween bag
NAMPA, ID - A Nampa mother reported to the Nampa
Police Department Tuesday night that her 6-year-old son had been given a small
bag of marijuana while out trick-or-treating. She reported that she had been
going through his candy bag and found the small plastic baggie that appeared to
contain marijuana. She brought the baggie to the Nampa Police Department and
turned it over to officers.
Nampa Police field tested the substance found in the
candy bag and it indeed tested “presumptively positive” for marijuana, said
Nampa Police Sgt. Tim Riha. […]
Global News [Canada]
1 November 2017
N.B. police warn parents
after needle, nail found in Halloween candy
[…] The Fredericton Police Force says a parent found a
needle in a chocolate bar after the family had gone trick-or-treating on the
north side. […]
WEAU-TV [WI]
1 November 2017
UPDATE: Needles found in
Arcadia Halloween candy
ARCADIA, Wis. (WEAU) -- Sewing needles were found
inside two different pieces of Halloween candy brought home by a child in
Arcadia Tuesday night.
“We received a phone call from a concerned parent. He
called me and stated that his child had gone through their candy and had
started to eat it and when they had bitten into it they had seen in the Kit Kat
that there was a needle in it,” says Arcadia Police Chief, Diana Anderson.
“In the meantime they had gone through some other
candy in his bag and had found a second item that was a Laffy Taffy type of a
substance that had a second needle in it as well,” says Anderson. […]
WBAY [WI]
1 November 2017
Police: nail found in candy
bars in Neenah
NEENAH, Wis. (WBAY) - Police say a mother found nails
in some of her son's Halloween candy following trick-or-treating in Neenah.
At 7 p.m., officers were called to the 400 block of S.
Lake Street. They met with a mother and child.
The mother said the 11-year-old boy had returned from
trick-or-treating and she inspected his candy. She found nails in three Kit Kat
candy bars, police say. […]
Metro [UK]
1 November 2017
Boy finds needle in Mars Bar
given to little brother while trick or treating
A schoolboy was horrified after he reportedly
discovered a needle inside a Mars bar his little brother was given on
Halloween.
The 12-year-old found the sharp two-inch object after
pulling the chocolate bar out of its wrapper on a bus this morning.
He had been handed the chocolate by his younger
sibling – who had been out trick or treating – as he left the house in
Dorchester, Dorset. […]
CBC News [Canada]
1 November 2017
West Nipissing Police say
sleep aids found in Halloween bag
No malicious intent say
police
A sample pack of over-the-counter sleep aids were
found in one Halloween bag last night in Sturgeon Falls.
West Nipissing Police Chief Chuck Seguin says the
origin of the package is unknown but it could have been picked up somewhere
south of Front Street.
Seguin says the call came in from a parent and nobody
ingested the pills.
No malicious intent is suspected said Seguin.
"It could be a mistake on the kitchen counter in
a home. It could be something that happened in a factory. We just want the
community to be aware that this happened," said Seguin. […]
MV Times [Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.]
31 October 2017
Oak Bluffs Police warn of
prescription medicine mixed with Halloween candy
On Tuesday night, the Oak Bluffs Police Dept. issued a
bulletin on their Facebook page warning that Halloween candy must be examined
thoroughly, after a parent reported finding a loose prescription pill in with
their child’s candy. […]
BBC News [UK]
1 November 2017
Pembroke mum's 'disgust' at
trick or treat drugs
A mother has been left "disgusted" after her
child was given unknown drugs while out trick or treating in Pembrokeshire.
Rhian Lloyd said her child was out with her friends in
The Green area of Pembroke on Halloween when the tablets were placed in their
sweet bags. […]
WVIT-HD [West Hartford, CT]
1 November 2017
Toddler Injured By Tainted
Halloween Candy in Groton
City of Groton police are looking into a report of
candy that had possibly been tampered with that was handed out to a toddler on
Halloween Tuesday night.
A mother called police to say her 1-year-old child
suffered a finger injury while handling the candy. The child was taken to a
medical facility. Stitches were not required but the child's skin had to be
glued together, according to Groton police.
The mother reported the incident to police at 10 p.m.
Tuesday.
“(The mom) went into the candy bag and found some item
of some kind – we’re not sure exactly what – kind of lodged into one of the
candies,” said Lt. Eric Jenkins.
Jenkins said the mom inadvertently misplaced that
piece of candy, but investigators found a second piece of candy in the family's
candy bag with a piece of thin metal hidden in the wrapper of a "fun
size" Snickers bar.
“Thinner than, let’s say, a razor blade. It’s very
thin. Probably a half inch long. But it’s a piece of metal,” Jenkins said. […]
WPVI-TV [Philadelphia, PA]
1 November 2017
Needle found in NJ
trick-or-treater's Tootsie Roll
RUNNEMEDE, N.J. (WPVI) -- Charlene Wagoner wants her
neighbors to be warned. Last night, her 12-year-old daughter, Lilyana,
discovered a two-inch sewing needle inside a tootsie roll. […]
KATU-TV [Portland, OR]
1 November 2017
Beaverton woman finds blade in
her daughter's Halloween candy haul
BEAVERTON, Ore. (KATU) — Washington County Sheriff's
deputies are investigating after a woman said she found a loose blade inside
her daughter's Halloween candy haul.
"I never in a million years would have thought it
would happen to us," said Tiffany Beehler.
Her 13-year-old daughter told her she found a loose
blade inside a packaged candy bar, possibly from a pencil sharpener. […]
Global News [Canada]
1 November 2017
London police investigating
report of needle found in small chocolate bar
Parents are being reminded to inspect all of their
children’s Halloween candy as police investigate a report that a needle was
found in a small chocolate bar collected by a child while trick-or-treating in
south London [Ontario] on Tuesday. […]
Mlive [Michigan]
1 November 2017
Needles found in piece of
Halloween candy in Flushing, police say
FLUSHING, MI - Two needles were allegedly found in a
piece of candy handed out of Halloween in Flushing, according to police.
The department received a report on Wednesday, Nov. 1,
of food tampering from a resident that went trick-or-treating with their
children in the Primrose and Windy Bluff neighborhoods west of Seymour Road.
"On November 1, one of the children bit into a
Tootsie Roll obtained from the trick-or-treating and found two needles embedded
within the candy," reads a statement from the Flushing Police Department.
"The child was not injured."
The small sewing-type needles were inside of a
full-sized Tootsie Roll that was wrapped when received by the 10-year-old
child. […]
Guelph Mercury Tribune [ON]
1 November 2017
Shelburne woman’s discovery
‘highlights’ need for parents to check children’s Halloween candy
Shelburne’s police chief says a woman’s discovery of a
small unwrapped green pill in her child’s candy “highlights” the need for
parents to look through their kids’ loot from Halloween night. […] Shelburne’s
police chief Kent Moore reports the pill is believed to be a herbal supplement
or vitamin. Police are still working towards confirming that. […]
Journal Pioneer [Summerside, P.E.I.]
1 November 2017
Tampering no longer suspected
SUMMERSIDE – There might not have been an incident of
Halloween treat tampering in Summerside after all.
Summerside Police Services sent out an advisory
Tuesday evening urging parents to scrutinize their children’s treats. That
followed receipt of two complaints of treat tampering.
Wednesday afternoon police services issued a statement
indicating that, after a followup investigation by its Major Crime Unit, police
do not believe treats were intentionally tampered with, nor do they believe
there was an attempt by anyone to harm trick-or-treaters.
Police do, however, maintain that parents should check
their children’s treats, pointing out treats can become contaminated in ways
other than by intentional acts.
The complaints came from two parents who had been
trick-or-treating with their children between Central Street and Greenwood
Drive area of the city. One parent reported finding some staples stuck in the
outside of a mini chocolate bar wrapper and the other reported finding a torn
chocolate bar wrapper.
The Post-Star [Glens Falls, NY]
1 November 2017
Family says pill was found
with Halloween candy
GLENS FALLS — Justin Harris was shocked Tuesday night
when he dumped his stepson's Halloween candy on the floor of his family's home
and saw a little white pill among the delights.
The pill had the letter and numbers "U36" on
it, which is the identifier for the pain reliever Tylenol mixed with the opioid
codeine. […]
WNEP-TV [Moosic, PA]
1 November 2017
Tainted Candy Facebook Rumors
Spread like Wildfire
NICHOLSON — Halloween night started with a Monster
Mash on Main Street in Nicholson. It ended with rumors around the borough of
tainted candy and reports of parents having tingly lips and feeling high after
eating Milk Duds. […]
The Dalton Borough Police Department and the Wyoming
County District Attorney’s Office both say nothing was found so far, and it
appears it may have been just a rumor that spread like wildfire on social
media. […]
KREM-TV [Spokane, WA]
1 November 2017
4 Omak HS students had
anxiety attack, did not eat tainted candy
OMAK, Wash.— Omak School District officials said
police have determined the candy that eaten by four Omak High School students
was not tainted.
School officials said the incident turns out to be an anxiety
attack on the part of one student that resonated with three others. They said
all of the students involved have had medical exams and the candy tested
revealed no identifiable contamination or foreign substance. […]
KXLY-TV [Spokane, WA]
1 November 2017
Odessa child finds t-pin in
candy bar
ODESSA, Wash. - Odessa Police Department took to
Facebook to warn parents to check their child's candy before they eat it.
An Odessa child found a t-pin in their Almond Joy
candy bar after trick-or-treating Tuesday night. […]
North Wright
County Today [Albertville, MN]
1 November 2017
BREAKING: Wright County
Investigating Needle in Monticello Trick-or-Treat Candy
A Monticello man
turned to social media Wednesday, Nov. 1 after searching through his child’s
candy and finding a needle in a Tootsie Roll. […]
rdnewsNOW [Red Deer, Alberta]
1 November 2017
Penhold mom makes unusual,
potentially dangerous find in kids' Halloween candy
[…] Penhold mom and former rdnewsNOW reporter Kirsten
Dennis discovered what appeared to be two diabetes lancets while checking candy
Tuesday night.
“Thankfully I dumped it on the ground and sorted it
that way and no little hand reached in to grab a treat,” she said.
Sgt. Lori Eiler with Innisfail RCMP says the lancets
found in the candy were unused and were not inserted directly into any pieces
of candy. She says there’s no evidence showing this was a deliberate incident
and that no other such incidents have been reported. […]
Chatham-Kent Police Service [Ontario]
1 November 2017
Needle Found in Halloween
Candy
Last night at 5:30 p.m. police responded to an address
on Alexandria Avenue in Chatham due to a complaint of a needle being found in a
chocolate bar. The complainant had taken her children out trick or treating on
Halloween within the area of Queen Street, Tweedsmuir Avenue, Lacroix Street
and Park Avenue in Chatham. Last night while inspecting her children’s candy,
she located a needle sticking out of a Snickers chocolate bar and contacted
police immediately.
CTV News [Vancouver Island, BC]
2 November 2017
Victoria police admit warning
about pot-laced gummies took 'too long'
[…] Officers were called to a home in the 100-block of
Simcoe Street Tuesday night after a child's parents found a package of
"Twisted Extracts Black Cherry Zzz Bomb" cannabis-infused gummies in
their Halloween candy.
Investigators said occupants in the home seemed to be
unaware they handed the candies out to children. […]
They said it did not appear to have been done
maliciously because the person has limited vision and was "deeply
apologetic" about the incident when officers spoke with them the next day.
[…]
Toronto Star
3 November 2017
Ontario girl, 11,
hospitalized after eating Halloween candy that contained metal object
By The Canadian Press
CAMBRIDGE, ONT.—Police say an 11-year-old girl in
southwestern Ontario has undergone surgery and remains in hospital after eating
a piece of Halloween candy that contained a metal object.
Waterloo regional police say the girl, from the
Cambridge, Ont.-area, ate a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup that contained the metal
piece, the source of which remains under investigation.
They say the girl was first taken to a local hospital
and later moved to a Hamilton hospital for surgery.
Police spokeswoman Cherri Greeno said Friday the
girl’s condition is not considered life-threatening. […]
CTV News [Kitchener, ON]
8 November 2017
Girl who ate metal in
Halloween chocolate out of hospital
A girl who ate a piece of Halloween chocolate
containing metal is back home and recovering with her family.
The 11-year-old Cambridge girl was rushed to an
out-of-town hospital last week after the metal in her Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
was discovered.
She underwent emergency surgery to remove the metal
from her body.
Waterloo Regional Police said Tuesday that the girl
had been released from hospital.
Police continue to investigate the source of the
metal. The girl had been trick-or-treating around the Preston core. Hershey,
which manufactures Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, has said it has protocols in
place to ensure its products are not contaminated that way before they leave
the factory.
The Herald-News [Joliet, IL]
1 November 2017
Case of tampered Halloween
candy confirmed in Joliet
[…] Joliet Deputy Police Chief Ed Gregory said a
woman’s granddaughter found a stick pin in her candy bar, which couldn’t be
identified because the 9-year-old girl threw away the wrapper.
[…] There was another call from a residence in the 200
block of North Hickory where a parent called police for a candy bar that was
cut in half and taped back together. Police found that the break was because of
a packaging mishap through the candy’s manufacturer, so there was no tampering
by another person.
Prince George Citizen [BC]
1 November 2017
Pencil sharpener blade found
in Halloween candy
Prince George RCMP are urging trick or treaters to
check their candy after receiving a report that a pencil sharpener blade was found
in a small chocolate bar. […]
WGRZ-TV [Buffalo, NY]
1 November 2017
Metal pin found in piece of
Halloween candy
CLARENCE, NY – A concerned parent notified authorities
after a piece of metal was found lodged in a Nestle Crunch mini candy from
trick-or-treating.
Detectives responded to the parent's Clarence home and
saw a pin embedded in the candy bar and evidence that the wrapper had been
compromised, according to the Erie County Sheriff's Office. […]
KWWL-TV [Waterloo,
Iowa]
1 November 2017
Nail found in Kit Kat in
northern Iowa
[…] Someone found
a nail in their Kit Kat bar in West Bend, IA.
Police determined
it was an isolated incident. […]
WBAY-TV [Green Bay, WI]
2 November 2017
Green Bay child finds needle
in Halloween candy
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A child found a needle in a
piece of Halloween candy collected in Green Bay, police say.
An 8-year-old girl was about to eat the peanut butter
cup when the child "quickly realized that a needle was in it," police
say. […]
This is the second report of a child finding a sharp
object in candy. On Halloween, a child found three nails in candy bars
collected during trick or treating in Neenah.
Neenah Police didn’t release any photos of the candy,
citing investigation privacy, but say the wrappers were sealed and nails were
sticking out of the wrappers.
Action 2 News tracked down the mother of the boy who
found the candy. She did not want to be identified or speak on camera, but says
the nails were large and rusty. She says the candy was collected between Adams
Street, Western Avenue and Lake Street in Neenah – less than two miles from
where a nail was found inside a piece of candy last year.
Omaha World-Herald [Nebraska]
2 November 2017
Bellevue parents 'in shock,
disbelief' after 10-year-old son finds needle in Halloween candy bar
On Wednesday morning, Lucas Ady of Bellevue did what a
lot of 10-year-olds do the day after Halloween: He bit into a chocolate bar he
had acquired trick-or-treating the night before.
What happened next was something that usually does not
occur: A needle inside the Twix bar grazed his cheek, according to his father.
[…]
Simcoe.com [ON]
2 November 2017
Barrie mom discovers pill
inside child's Halloween candy
Barrie mom Samantha Lawrence called Barrie Police
after finding what she believes is a white pill inside her child's Halloween
candy.
She shared the shocking discovery on Facebook.
"This was found tonight in our child's Tootsie
Fruit Chew," she wrote. "We checked the candy. This candy didn't look
like it had been altered." […]
Bayshore Broadcasting [ON]
3 November 2017
(UPDATE) Tampered Halloween
Candy
Melatonin pill found in
Barrie boy's treat.
Health Canada has confirmed a pill found in a Barrie
boy's Halloween candy was Melatonin, a sleep aid supplement. […]
Simcoe.com [ON]
1 November 2017
Pills found in Halloween
candy in St. Catharines
Child trick or treating in
the Western Hill area
ST. CATHARINES – Parents are being warned to check
their children's Halloween haul after pills were discovered among a child's
Halloween candy in St. Catharines.
At around 9:30 p.m., police were called to a home in
the Western Hill area of the city. The officer spoke with a concerned parent
who reported finding four prescription pills loose among their child's candy.
The parent found the pills while inspecting the candy the child collected while
out trick or treating.
The pills were found to be a prescription muscle
relaxant, which can be used to treat symptoms of multiple sclerosis, which
include muscle spasms, pain and stiffness. […]
CBC News [Canada]
2 November 2017
'It was crazy': 9-year-old
finds needle lodged in Twix bar
"We broke it open and
found a small sewing needle … and everybody was staring, it was crazy"
It was nine-year-old Emily Van Buel's quick thinking
that she says saved the life of her best friend – who found a sewing needle
lodged in one of her Halloween chocolate bars.
The pair was ready to chow down on handfuls of candy
during lunch period at Sir Arthur Carty Catholic Elementary School [in London,
ON] on Wednesday when Emily noticed her best friend didn't check her
snack-sized Twix bar.
"She was just going to shove it in her
mouth," said Emily, who regularly breaks open her candy bars to check for
peanuts – as her younger sister is allergic.
"So, we broke it open and found a small sewing
needle … and everybody was staring, it was crazy it was like unexpected,"
she said. "I thought some things were dangerous, but when it comes to
candy, I thought it was the one safe thing. But it's really not." […]
Panama City News
Herald [FL]
2 November 2017
P.C. father reports metal pin
in kids’ Halloween candy
PANAMA CITY —
Police responded Wednesday to a father’s report of a metal pin discovered in a
piece of Halloween candy.
The complainant
told police while looking through his children’s candy Wednesday afternoon, he
noticed a pinhole in a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Inside the package, he pulled
out a piece of metal and “discovered it to be a ½-inch metal pin, resembling
the metal pin portion of a thumb tack,” according to a Bay County Sheriff’s
Office report. […]
CBC News
2 November 2017
Grassy Narrows family finds
needle in Halloween candy, wants others to be careful
Rudy Turtle says he and his
daughter found a needle stuck through a Reese's peanut butter cup
A family in Grassy Narrows First Nation and a police
force that serves a number of Indigenous communities in northern Ontario are
reminding everyone to check Halloween candy after a scary incident this week.
Rudy Turtle's 11-year-old daughter was going through
her candy Wednesday evening that she got while trick-or-treating when she found
a needle stuck through a Reese's peanut butter cup, he told CBC News. […]
Chronicle Live [UK]
2 November 2017
Mum's horror as man puts Ann
Summers lolly in her little sister's Halloween bucket
The woman from County Durham was disgusted when she
found the x-rated lolly and has reported the incident to police
A family have been left outraged after a schoolgirl
was handed was handed a sickening ‘treat’ on Halloween.
The five-year-old girl was with her big sister in
Horden, County Durham, where they called at the home of a stranger.
A man answered the door and filled her bucket with
sweets and a sordid addition – an adult themed lollipop resembling male
genitalia. […]
Chronicle Live
2 November 2017
Police say no 'sinister'
intentions after Ann Summers lolly handed to schoolgirl trick or treater
The lolly is said to have
been left behind from a recent hen party and police believe there were no
'sinister' intentions
Officers investigating an indecent lollipop handed to
a five-year-old girl have described it as an “innocent mistake”.
The family of the five-year-old girl were shocked when
they found the adult themed Ann Summers lollipop resembling male genitalia and
reported it to the police.
Durham Constabulary began making inquiries and the
force has now closed the investigation saying they believe no harm was
intended.
A member of the man’s family contacted ChronicleLive
and said they are “mortified” at the mistake and apologised to the woman.
He said that the lolly had been left over from a
recent Hen Do and the man had not realised what it was before he handed it out
to the trick-or-treater. […]
Sunshine Coast Daily [Australia]
2 November 2017
Halloween prank leaves sour
taste in mum's mouth
MINTIES. Not too hard and not too soft, perfectly
chewy, not too sweet and they never leave a sour or gross aftertaste in your
mouth.
Unless of course you're eating a bar of soap instead.
This was the reality for a Coast family.
It was the day after Halloween with kids beginning to
rejoice in their spoils, the one time of year they can consume their bodyweight
in sugar.
But what should have been a minty fresh treat for a five-year-old
child, was a mean trick - as the child bit into a cubed piece of soap. […]
The Barrie Examiner [ON]
2 November 2017
Halloween snack contained
pill
Halloween candy tampering is being investigated after
an 11-year-old Barrie boy's cherry flavoured Tootsie Roll contained an unknown
pill. […]
Global News [Canada]
2 November 2017
Winnipeg mom finds Xanax
pills in kid’s Halloween candy bag
A Winnipeg mom contacted police after finding a bag of
Xanax pills in her child’s Halloween candy bag.
Amanda Fehr told Global News she noticed the small
zipped bag of eight pills as she was going through the candy and contacted cops
Thursday. […]
WFSB-TV [Hartford, CT]
2 November 2017
Razor found in New Britain
Halloween treat
NEW BRITAIN, CT (WFSB) - A razor was found in a
Halloween treat by a New Britain trick-or-treater, according to police.
Police told Channel 3 that the teen victim discovered
the razor in the packaging for a wafer. […]
The South Bayview Bulldog [ON]
2 November 2017
North Leaside trick or
treater gets earplugs not Cheetos
North Leaside resident, Barrig Hagopian-Hayward, has
posted to Leaside Community that a “treat” that looked like Cheetos was really
ear plugs. Hagopian-Hayward says: “A cautionary word to anyone who went trick
or treating on Donlea, Divadale or Thursfield in North Leaside. We just checked
our son’s candy so he could have one piece before bed and found this. It may
look like Cheetos but is actually an open package of (used?) earplugs.” […]
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dad-halloween-biscuits-out-of-date_uk_59f9a1d4e4b00c6145e2ab54
Huffington Post UK
1 November 2017
Dad Discovers Biscuits Given
To Trick Or Treating Kids Were Actually 18 Years Out Of Date
A dad who sneakily helped himself to his daughters’
Halloween treats was pretty shocked when he realised biscuits they were given
were 18 years out of date.
Adrian Johnson, from Leeds, tweeted a photo of the
McVitie’s milk chocolate digestives that had a best before date of 15 May 1999.
[…]
WHAM-TV
[Rochester, NY]
2 November 2017
Local woman claims she found
unwanted surprise in candy bar
Rochester, N.Y. -
A Rochester woman is claiming she found an unwanted surprise when she bit into
a candy bar.
Kaitlin Montanari
tells 13WHAM her patients at the medical office where she works often bring in
candy, but when she bit into a Snickers bar Wednesday, she says she found
something inside that was not caramel.
Montanari says she
stopped mid-bite, claiming she found a found hook inside. “I started to bite
into it more, and I couldn't get through," she said. "I pulled it
out, and there was a metal hook. I'm very lucky I did not get injured at all.”
She believes a
piece of a machine may have broken off into the candy bar. […]
CNY Central
2 November 2017
Reports of needles in
Halloween candy in Vernon
VERNON, N.Y. — The Village of Vernon Police Department
is investigating two separate reports of sewing needles found in children's Halloween
candy, according to Vernon Police.
Two complainants, who do not know each other, each
found the silver-colored sewing needles inside a package of red Twizzler
Twists. […]
Global News [Canada]
3 November 2017
N.S. RCMP investigating
report of needle in Halloween candy in Eastern Passage
RCMP in the Halifax area are investigating after a
mother says she found a sewing needle in her seven-year-old daughter’s
Halloween candy. […]
WGBA-TV [Green Bay, WI]
3 November 2017
Fond du Lac Police
investigating report of pill in Halloween candy
Fond du Lac Police received a complaint Thursday just
before midnight from a woman living at the Weathervane Apartments along East
Division Street who was going through Halloween candy with her children.
The woman found what appeared to be pieces of a pill
inside a package of Mike and Ike candy, which had a hole in the packaging.
The officer who responded describes a pill with a
white interior and hard orange exterior. It looked like two pieces of a pill,
but police currently do not know what it is. […]
CBC News [Canada]
3 November 2017
Windsor parent reports
finding needle in Halloween candy
Police are adding Windsor to the list of cities with
reports of needles found in Halloween candy.
Officers went to a home on Gregory Place in the city's
east end Thursday, where a parent complained that their child discovered a
needle inside a chocolate bar.
No injuries were reported.
The find follows similar discoveries in Chatham and
London.
WYTV [Youngstown, OH]
3 November 2017
Report: Needle found in
Boardman child’s Halloween candy
BOARDMAN, Ohio (WYTV) – Police in Boardman are
investigating how a needle made its way into a child’s Halloween candy.
According to a police report, the sewing needle was
found in a Rice Krispies treat. […]
KKTV [Colorado Springs, CO]
2 November 2017
Mom finds detergent pods in
son's Halloween candy
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - A Colorado Springs
mom says she was disgusted when she found two dishwasher detergent pods were
given to her son in his Halloween candy. […]
WKBW-TV [Buffalo, NY]
3 November 2017
Hamburg Police investigate
report of needle in Halloween candy
HAMBURG, N.Y. (WKBW) - Town of Hamburg Police are
investigating a report that someone placed a needle or small nail in a piece of
Halloween candy.
Detectives believe the candy - a piece of Banana Laffy
Taffy - was handed out in the Pine Lakes subdivision area in Lakeview. […]
Cape Breton Post [NS]
2 November 2017
Halloween ‘beer’ treats on
the Northside likely unintentional
SYDNEY MINES, N.S. - Fruity beer drinks are great
Halloween treats for Homer Simpson but not so much for kids.
But that’s what 12-year-old Morgan MacMullin from
Florence, found in her bag the day after trick-or-treating. It wasn’t the full
alcohol kind but a de-alcoholized lager beer with lemonade known as Radler,
which contains .5 per cent alcohol. […]
Morgan wasn’t the only child to get a can of
de-alcoholized Radler, which can be bought at grocery stores.
Tanya Gracie’s 12-year-old daughter Olivia was
trick-or-treating with Morgan and got one too. […]
WJAR-TV [Providence, RI]
3 November 2017
Adderall found in 8-year-old’s
Halloween candy
Four Adderall pills were found inside 8-year-old
child’s Halloween candy, according to authorities.
East Providence Police told NBC 10 News that the
child’s parents were sorting through the candy when they discovered a plastic
bag with four peach-colored pills inside.
The parents took the pills to the police station,
where the pills were identified as Adderall. […]
WTIC-TV [Hartford, CT]
4 November 2017
A Meriden family discovers a
needle inside Halloween candy
MERIDEN -- It was something Siobhan Bazinet never wants
to see again.
"I live in a nice neighborhood. I would never
expect it from anything like that," says Bazinet.
Her two daughters were enjoying trick-or-treating
until one of them found a small needle inside a Kit Kat bar.
Angelina Bazinet, Siobhan's daughter, says she was
trick-or-treating within a one mile radius of their Meriden home. They knew
most of the people in the neighborhood until an unfamiliar face gave a rather
unusual piece of advice.
"When we were leaving he told us to check our
candy before we eat it and then he winked at us," says Angelina Bazinet.
[…]
KFDA-TV [Amarillo, TX]
3 November 2017
Amarillo family finds nail in
Halloween candy, urges caution to others
AMARILLO, TX (KFDA) - One Amarillo mother is urging
parents to check their children's Halloween candy after claiming her daughter
found a nail in one of her pieces of chocolate.
Amanda Rivas and her 11-year-old daughter Hailey
Picasso were eating Halloween candy last night when Picasso bit into what she
assumed was an average Twix bar.
"I took a bite of it and I noticed that something
poked my tongue, and I was like 'ow that hurt,'" said Picasso. "And
so I turned the Twix around and I saw a nail, a little circle something, and I
was like 'uh mom' and I immediately spit it out." […]
Simcoe.com [ON]
3 November 2017
Sharp object found in
Innisfil girl's Halloween candy
South Simcoe Police officers are investigating after
an Alcona mom has reported finding a sharp object in her daughter's Halloween
candy.
The mom called Nov. 2 to report the object, and added
her daughter wasn't hurt by it. […]
CTV News [Canada]
4 November 2017
Second case of Halloween
candy tampering in Barrie
[…] Officers are investigating a second report of
candy tampering, this time in the north-east end of Barrie.
A 13-year-old boy found a piece of metal inside an
individually wrapped Tootsie Roll.
He did not ingest the candy, and police were called
immediately upon discovery. […]
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/story/news/2017/11/06/needle-found-halloween-candy-oshkosh/835264001/
Oshkosh
Northwestern [WI]
6 November 2017
Police investigating report
of needle found in Halloween candy in Oshkosh
OSHKOSH – Police
are investigating a report of a needle being embedded in a piece of Halloween
candy on the city's west side. […]
Hamilton Spectator [ON]
6 November 2017
10-year-old Hamilton girl
bites into Halloween candy and finds sewing needle
Hamilton police are asking parents to recheck their
kids' Halloween candy after a 10-year-old girl bit into a chocolate bar and
found a sewing needle stuck in the middle. […]
The chocolate — a mini Coffee Crisp — with the needle
in the middle and its wrapper have been seized as evidence. […]
First Coast News [FL]
6 November 2017
Ponte Vedra woman finds sharp
metal objects in Halloween candy
[…] [Lucy] Ferguson told First Coast News her
step-daughter asked her to go through her Halloween candy Friday; the girl
wasn’t allowed to eat the candy until Ferguson gave it the all-clear. Ferguson
said she goes through Halloween candy every year.
This year, however, she noticed a strange Snickers
wrapper when she dumped out a pile of candy.
Ferguson said it looked like three of the mini candy
wrappers fused together and was partially torn.
“When I went to check it, a bit of a blade had kind
of, sort of, grabbed part of my skin,” she said. “And I continued on to feel
through the candy and that’s whenever we found the little second part of a
piece of metal.” […]
Ferguson reported the incident to the St. Johns County
Sheriff’s Office, which sent deputies to her home Monday. The incident report
states:
“It should be noted the candy wrapper appeared to be
three separate candy wrappers, which were never separated by the manufacturer.
The wrapper appeared as though some sort of malfunction with production
equipment took place during the manufacturing and packaging of the product.”
[…]
Cape Breton Post
[NS]
7 November 2017
Pieces of metal found in
Halloween candy in Port Williams, Timberlea
PORT WILLIAMS, NS
– Thin pieces of metal have been found in three pieces of Halloween candy in
Port Williams and Timberlea.
RCMP responded to
a call November 3 in Port Williams, where a teenaged girl found a flat piece of
metal inside her Reese’s Pieces candy bar she’d received from the Port Williams
area.
The girl didn’t
notice anything strange while opening the candy bar, and wasn’t injured from
the metal despite biting into the chocolate. It was seized by RCMP as evidence.
The two pieces
were reported November 6 in Timberlea. A paperclip was found inside a Coffee
Crisp chocolate bar and a needle inside a Kit Kat chocolate bar. The child was
also not hurt. […]
WESH-TV [Orlando,
FL]
7 November 2017
Palm Bay parents find metal
in kids' Halloween candy
BREVARD COUNTY,
Fla. — A Palm Bay mother said she made a disturbing find in her child's
Halloween candy.
The woman said she
and her husband found metal pins in her boys' candy after they went
trick-or-treating last week.
One-year-old
Camden Schaper was dressed as a firefighter. 2-year-old Clay, his brother, was
Spiderman. Their parents waited a few days before examining all the candy they
brought home on Halloween, but when their father put his hand in the bucket, he
found a sharp object.
"He had
opened a Twizzler and the pin poked him in his thumb," said Melissa
Schaper, the children's mother.
Eventually, the
Schapers said they found two Twizzlers, one in each boy's Halloween bucket,
with pins stuck right through the end. […]
Times-Picayune
[New Orleans]
8 November 2017
Needle in Halloween KitKat
bar 'not a hoax': Pearl River police
A needle found in
a KitKat bar distributed last week during trick or treating in Pearl River is
"not a hoax," Police Chief JJ Jennings said during a news conference
Wednesday (Nov. 8).
Police are
investigating the incident that surfaced when the mother of a 10-year-old boy
reported Monday night that she opened the wrapper on a piece of candy and found
a one-inch long needle protruding from the bar. Both the mom and the police
posted a warning on social media, which triggered some skepticism among
commenters. […]
WFTV [Orlando, FL]
7 November 2017
Police investigate after
Melbourne woman finds metal in Halloween candy
MELBOURNE, Fla. -
A Melbourne woman was sitting down for the evening Sunday and grabbed a Baby
Ruth bar from a bag she’d opened to make goodie bags for her daughter’s class.
When she put the
candy bar in her mouth, though, she got a very unpleasant surprise.
“I’m chewing it (and)
I felt something go, crunchy, crunchy sound, and I’m like, ‘Oh, what was
that?’” Barbara Silk said.
It was metal. […]
http://www.knoe.com/content/news/Lake-Providence-aunt-finds-needle-in-Halloween-candy-455960333.html
KNOE-TV [Monroe,
LA]
7 November 2017
Lake Providence aunt finds
needle in Halloween candy
LAKE PROVIDENCE,
La. (KNOE) - A Lake Providence aunt is on alert tonight after a finding a sharp
object in her niece's Halloween candy. Kala Maxwell said when her family found
the object, they could not believe their eyes.
"I took it
out of her hand and low and behold it was a needle sticking out of her fruity
tootsie roll," Maxwell said. […]
Hawaii News Now
7 November 2017
Police investigating tainted
Halloween candy case in Kailua
HONOLULU
(HawaiiNewsNow) - Parents: Check your children's Halloween candy.
Police have opened
a reckless endangering case after the mother of an 8-year old girl says she
found a needle in a Twix bar that the child got on Halloween. […]
The Hamilton
Spectator [ON]
7 November 2017
Milton girl discovers dead
mouse among Halloween loot
Mother calls the act
mean-spirited
A 10-year-old
Milton girl was horrified to discover a dead mouse among the candy in her
Halloween bag after she went trick-or-treating last week.
As the Grade 5
student sorted through her candy on the living room floor, she reached for what
she thought was an dried-up leaf, but turned out to be a desiccated mouse,
complete with trap marks on it. […]
Bayshore Broadcasting [Brampton, ON]
8 November 2017
Needle Found in Halloween
Candy
[…] Peel Police are investigating a case of Halloween
candy that was allegedly tampered with.
Tuesday November 7th police were called about a sewing
needle that was inserted into a Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar. […]
Global News
[Canada]
8 November 2017
Police warn of 2 more
incidents of tampered Halloween candy, brings total in HRM to 4
Halifax [N.S.] Regional
Police are warning citizens to check their Halloween Candy after two incidents
of tampered treats were reported last week.
Both incidents
were reported in Dartmouth.
The two additional
reports bring the number of incidents in the Halifax Regional Municipality to
four, one in Timberlea and another in Eastern Passage. An incident has also
been reported in Kings County, N.S. […]
According to
police, on Nov. 1 at 1:43 p.m. Halifax police received a complaint of
suspicious circumstance on Russel Street. A parent was reportedly going through
her children’s candy when she found a straight pin inserted inside the wrapper
of a chocolate bar.
Her daughter had
been trick-or-treating in the area of Russell Street, Wyse and Victoria Roads
and surrounding streets.
The second
incident was reported on Nov 2, at 3:46 p.m. on Hare Lane in Dartmouth.
A 14-year-old was
going through her Halloween candy when she found a straight pin had been
inserted inside the wrapper of a chocolate bar. […]
Newsday [Long
Island, NY]
9 November 2017
Cops: Father says girl, 6,
found needle in Halloween candy
A 6-year-old North
Lindenhurst girl escaped injury after she bit into her Halloween candy
Wednesday and discovered a 2-inch sewing needle stuck inside, Suffolk police
said.
First Precinct
officers responded to the girl’s home at about 5:40 p.m. Wednesday after her
father called to report that she had found the needle after biting into a Twix
Fun Size Caramel cookie bar, according to police. […]
NJ.com [New
Jersey]
9 November 2017
Parent finds sewing needle in
Halloween candy, cops say
NATIONAL PARK --
Police are warning area residents to carefully scrutinize their kids' Halloween
goodies after a parent reported finding a sewing needle in a piece of candy in
a Gloucester County town. […]
Michelle Garner
posted on Facebook Wednesday afternoon that it was her little sister who bit
into a Twizzler and found the needle. "Thank God she only took a small
bite," Garner wrote. […]
The Journal Pioneer [Summerside, PEI]
10 November 2017
Report of Halloween candy
tampering in Summerside unfounded: Police
Summerside Police Services say they received a report
on Nov. 8 that a pin was located inside a chocolate bar from Halloween.
A concerned mother called the police after her son
showed her the chocolate with the pin inside.
The complainant also made a Facebook post about the
incident, which was shared hundreds of times, warning others to be careful.
Police inspected the bar and determined that the pin
inside was the same type of pin found on a Remembrance Day poppy pin.
After speaking further with the complainant and her
son, police discovered that the pin came from within the complainant’s home and
was not received from an unknown source. […]
Global News
[Canada]
15 November 2017
Children in Napanee are hurt by pins put in their
Halloween candy
[…] Thirteen-year-old
Emma Perry’s desire for a chocolate bar turned into a moment of fear.
“Something poked
me in my tongue and I looked down and I saw it was a pin I was shocked I didn’t
know what to do.”
Emma’s mother
called police and the doctor.
Napanee OPP have
confirmed Emma’s experience isn’t the only one in the town of 15,000. […]
The second pin was
in a Mr. Big chocolate bar and was reported Saturday night. […]
Timmins Press [ON]
20 November 2017
Police issue warning after
needle found in Halloween candy
TIMMINS - Timmins
Police are investigating a report of a sewing needle being inserted into a
small chocolate bar [Oh Henry!] that was part of a child’s Halloween candy. […]
