Mother finds 'bag of ecstasy pills' in child's Halloween sweets after going trick-or-treating
Amy Dixon spots padded envelope filled with pink tablets
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Your support makes all the difference.A mother found a suspected bag of ecstasy pills in her child’s trick-or-treat sweets.
Amy Dixon, from Shiremoor, North Tyneside, found a padded envelope containing pink tablets among the treats her children had collected on Halloween.
As the 34-year-old emptied the contents of the envelope, her four-year-old daughter almost put the pills in her mouth.
“I picked it up and I just thought, ‘Who puts sweets in a Jiffy bag?” she told The Chronicle.
“I was screaming hysterically at her. Then my partner said: ‘Hang on, they don’t look like sweets’. My heart was racing,” she added.
Ms Dixon took the pills to her local police station who said they believed the pink tablets are likely to be ecstasy.
A Northumbria Police spokesperson said: “We are investigating a report from a parent that unknown pink tablets were placed in her daughter’s trick or treat bucket in Shiremoor last night.
“Enquiries to establish if the tablets are harmful are ongoing but any reports of this nature are extremely concerning and will be taken seriously by police.
“If anyone received a similar tablet, or has information which could assist officers, then police would ask you call 101 quoting reference 1073 31/10/18.”
The news comes days after a five-year-old boy tested positive for methamphetamine after he went trick-or-treating.
Braylen Carwell, from Ohio, had a seizure and began shaking after he came home from collecting sweets.
He was unable to move his arms and his father rushed him to hospital.
The entire contents of his trick-or-treating bag have been sent to the laboratory to be tested.
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