Posted on 11/01/2022 3:13:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One person has been charged in connection with the incident, police say Police in the south suburbs are warning parents about potentially drug-laced gummy bears they say were handed out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween.
South Chicago Heights police said some children who went trick-or-treating on Cherry Lane received yellow colored gummy bears in unbranded packaging that may have been contaminated with cannabis.
One person has been charged in connection with the incident, police said, and is facing five counts of child endangerment.
The gummies are now in the process of being tested by a crime lab to determine exactly what was in them, investigators said.
Police said they are not aware of any children ingesting the potentially drug-laced candy and are working to recover any that was distributed.
Police credited an alert parent and grandparent for alerting them to the incident. If you have any information about the incident or packages of candy to contact the South Chicago Heights police department at 708-755-3520.
Hey it’s legal...it’s being sold across the country just like candy. So what’s the problem. /s
I subbed yesterday at the school I used to teach. I told the jr. high kids how Halloween was when I was a kid in the 50s. No one over 5 or 6 had their parents with them while trick or treating. Apparently no one back then thought it might be a good idea to harm kids trick or treating, or if there were, it wasn’t common enough to be a concern.
I asked them how many of them would have parents along and they all raised their hands. They understood why it was necessary, but they all understood that a lot of the fun of Halloween has been taken from them.
The 50s weren’t perfect, but I think it was a better time to grow up (except for medical issues) than today is.
That’s nothing compared to what happened in Pasadena, TX back in the 70’s. A man poisoned his children with arsenic in giant pixie sticks for the insurance money. The ripple effect ended trick or treating in the area for the next twenty years.
Are you talking about Ronald O’Bryan in the 1970s? That was in the Houston, Texas area.
Actually it isn’t being sold like candy. Like alcohol, it is sold in the jurisdictions it is legal in only to adults with proper ID, and like alcohol, it is illegal to give, dispense, or otherwise make it available to minors even if by accident as case law has made clear. So an actual crime was committed, and therein lies the actual problem you smugly closed with a sarcasm tag. Societal maturity or lack thereof and the always present criminal element seem to be the underlying recurring themes if you really want to pin blame somewhere.
Just wait until they start putting Fentanyl in candy.
I think that’s another reason why trick or treating is starting to die out, we only had a few come by last night.
People really should no longer allow their kids to go trick or treating anymore. Too many bad people with evil intent out there.
I was a kid in the 60’s. We would go out and trick or treat for hours bringing home giant bags of candy.
The only problem we had was teen boys running up and knifing the bottom of your bag so all your candy fell out.
Correct. It was cyanide, not arsenic. My mistake.
Definitely. FR’s own libertardian addicts assure us it’s harmless.
Back in those days we used paper grocery bags for trick or treating. People would slip an ice cube in your bag. Get a few houses down and the ice melted making the bottom fall out of the paper bag.
I guess that was the trick part. lol I remember going home to Mommy and bawling that my candy was all gone.
A quick search says those gummies are $2.50 on up.
Someone is giving them out for free? I guess pot does make you dumb.
You aren’t saying there are bad people out there, are you? The horror.
Those and the multicolored deadly fentanyl tablets are part of a big joke to the thugs.
We aren’t laughing.
many of these buyers are just the middleman...and teens are their target....don’t be naive...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.