Crime

Poisoned cat food left in Calgary’s Confederation Park, police investigating

By Heide Pearson Global News

Posted March 23, 2021 3:28 pm

Updated March 23, 2021 6:43 pm

1 min read

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Click to play video: 'Poisoned cat food reported in Calgary’s Confederation Park' — WATCH: Calgary police are warning about three separate incidents where chemical-laced cat food was found in Confederation Park. As Jenna Freeman reports, it has those that use the popular park concerned – Mar 23, 2021

Calgary police are trying to find a man believed to be hiding cat food laced with chemicals in Confederation Park in the northwest.

According to investigators, there’s been a “series of incidents” where the tainted food has been left in and around the trees of the park.

Three incidents were reported earlier in March, police said Tuesday.

Investigators worked with the Calgary Fire Department’s HAZMAT team, and determined it was laced with both sulfuric acid and phenyltoloxamine citrate, both of which “would cause unnecessary pain and possibly death to an animal, should they ingest enough.”