No tricks in my child’s treats
Parents and kids alike are preparing for a safe trick-or-treating experience.
Typically a fun, eventful night, parents do have to be cautious about what’s in the child’s candy bag.
” Check your child’s candy, look for anything that’s an open wrapper, ” Yuma Police Department Sgt. Lori Franklin said.
YPD hasn’t had any reports this year or last of candy laced with anything but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
Michelle Meadows, a Yuma resident who would go trick-or-treating with her nieces and nephews, says they aren’t allowed to eat the candy until they get home.
Even as a kid, that was the rule for her.
” You go out, you collect candy and at the end of the night, your parents go through it and whatever they pick out, that’s the bad, ” Meadows said. ” Opened or unwrapped, you don’t eat. ”
As far as candy containing THC, Sgt. Franklin doesn’t expect to see it.
” I’m not going to say it’s not going to happen but as far as stuff like that, it’s not something that’s legalized here, ” Sgt. Franklin said. ” We would hope people would not do something like that. ”
If you’re going to hand out candy, Sgt. Franklin recommends you turn your lights on, welcome the kids and have lots of candy.
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