

Chris Herhalt, CP24.com





Halton Regional Police say a 12-year-old girl was given a mini Bacardi rum bottle by a resident while trick-or-treating in Milton on Monday night.

Police say that the girl was trick-or-treating in the area of Childs and Ledwith drives, near Main Street East and Ontario Street, on Monday night, when a resident of a home in the area placed the bottle in her bag.

The girl’s mother found the bottle in the bag. It contained a clear fluid, police said.

The bottle’s seal was compromised and it was leaking slightly. Police inspected the bottle and then sealed it so it could be sent away to a lab for more detailed analysis.

It is not yet known whether the liquid inside the bottle contains alcohol.

Parents of children who were trick-or-treating in the same area Monday night are urged to carefully inspect the candy their children received.

Liquor bottles weren’t the only dangerous item casually dropped into a child’s treat bag this Halloween.

In St. Catharines, Niagara Regional Police say a child was trick-or-treating in the Western Hill neighbourhood of the city on Monday night when someone placed four loose muscle relaxant pills in their bag.

The pills were found to be a prescription muscle relaxant commonly used to treat muscle symptoms caused by multiple sclerosis.