VicPd are investigating after a suspicious item was located in a child’s Halloween candy Sunday evening.
Police say they were this evening called around 6:30 p.m. to the 900-block of Arm Street in Esquimalt after a parent located an ammonia inhalant, commonly referred to as “smelling salts”, in their child’s Halloween candy.
The family had trick-or-treated in the area of the 900-block of Arm Street and the 700-block of Selkirk Avenue Halloween night.
Officers are asking anyone who trick-or-treated in that area on Halloween to review their child’s candy for suspicious items.
If you discover a similar item, please remove it from your child’s candy and call police.
Police say they are investigating the incident as a suspicious circumstance and are also asking for information from the public.
Anyone with information about this incident, is asked to call VicPD’s non-emergency line at (250) 995-7654. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
