Barrie police are the latest to urge the public to carefully look over Halloween candy before eating it after an 11-year-old boy found an unidentified pill in an unwrapped cherry flavoured Tootsie Roll.
Police have launched a criminal investigation into the incident and sent the candy to the Centre of Forensic Science for examination. Officers urge anyone who went trick-or-treating in the area of Cundles Road, West, near Emma King Elementary School to be extra vigilant when checking over candy.
The warning follows similar reports of candy being tampered with in Chatham, London, and Cambridge. Chatham-Kent police reported Wednesday evening that a needle was found in a Snickers bar. Police said a parent found it while inspecting the chocolate bar and then contacted police. No injuries were reported.
The London Police Services reported a child in the White Oaks area found a needle in their Halloween candy and was not injured.
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On Thursday, police reported that there is no way to tell which residence the candy came from but that the child had been trick-or-treating along Sasha Crescent, Elvira Crescent, Muriel Crescent, Ernest Avenue between Jalna Boulevard and Muriel Crescent, and the complex at 870 Jalna Boulevard.
Meanwhile, a child in Cambridge was sent to hospital after consuming a Reese’s peanut butter cup Halloween candy that contained a “foreign metal object,” according to Waterloo Regional Police.
The child required hospital care and was later transferred to another health-care facility to be examined further and police continue to investigate the incident.
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