UPDATE: Tampered candy claims unfounded
Posted Nov 1, 2016 08:57:46 AM.
Last Updated Nov 1, 2016 11:48:09 AM.
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OTTAWA —
UPDATE: Ottawa Police have closed the investigation into the tampered candy claims, saying the report was “unfounded.”
According to the original report, sewing needles were discovered in a child’s Halloween candy, collected in the east end of the capital.
The report went on to say a young girl bit into a chocolate bar and found the needle, Monday night. The child was not seriously injured.
Ottawa Police tell 1310 NEWS, the candy was collected Monday night, somewhere in the Meadowbrook area, near Blair and the 174.
“Officers attended the house, and in fact it was several candy bars with needles in them,” said Cst. Marc Soucy, Ottawa Police. “I don’t know the exact number of candies, but I can tell you it’s more than two.”
Police are withholding the type of chocolate bars that contained the needles, and are urging parents to examine all of their children’s candy before allowing them to eat it.
If you find anything suspicious in your child’s Halloween candy, you’re asked to keep the candy and the wrappers, and call police.
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