Larissa Kurz
Regina Leader-Post
The Regina Police Service (RPS) is investigating after it received a third call about a Halloween chocolate bar containing a piece of metal.
“We now have three reports of suspicious candy …,” acting RPS chief Lorilee Davies said during a news conference Tuesday.
The first two callers said their children were trick-or-treating Friday night in the Greens on Gardiner and Fairways West/Normanview West neighbourhoods, respectively. Each reported a thin piece of metal — similar to a sewing needle — lodged in a Coffee Crisp bar with tampered packaging, Davies said.
The third caller also reported finding a thin piece of metal in a piece of candy after their child was trick-or-treating in the Glen Elm area. However, that report noted it to be “brass-coloured” and inside an Aero bar, she said.
Davies confirmed no one has been injured and that police are investigating all three incidents.
Based on the spread of neighbourhoods, police do not believe at this time that the tampering was targeted, she noted.
“I don’t want people to panic. I just want parents to be diligent in checking their candy and letting kids know to take a look at their candy before opening these chocolate bars,” Davies said. “I don’t want to jump to any conclusions. It could potentially be something like a manufacturing issue, but we need to do some more digging into it.”
Davies asked the public to check all Halloween candy carefully, not just specific types of chocolate bars, and to alert police if they find anything unusual.
“We are urging folks, if they do come across something, if they can keep all of the evidence — including the candy bar, the wrapper, and whatever the suspicious material might be — so that we can do an analysis on it,” she said
“When we are able to look at all the items together, we have the full package so to speak in terms of being able to look at similarities amongst them.”
Davies said she’s not aware of any similar reports of Halloween candy tampering in Saskatchewan cities.
However, police in other provinces are investigating their own reports, including needle-like metal that was reportedly discovered inside chocolate bars in B.C.
