Police are urging parents in Milton to thoroughly check their children’s trick-or-treat bags after a 12-year-old girl returned home with a mini liquor bottle containing a potentially dangerous substance.

According to investigators, the girl’s mother discovered a mini 50 milliliter Bacardi Rum bottle containing a clear fluid while looking through her candy on Monday night. The mother told police the bottle was leaking and believed the seal on the bottle had been compromised.

Police took the bottle and sent it to a lab to be analyzed as officers couldn’t be certain the liquid was indeed alchohol.

Investigators believe the bottle was likely placed in the girl’s trick-or-treat bag by a resident near Childs Drive and Ledwith Drive and are urging parents who had children in this neighbourhood on Halloween night to carefully examine their candy.

Halton police also urge parents of all neighbourhoods to be vigilant in checking all candy obtained through trick-or-treating.