Florida Attorney General warns families about Halloween candy tainted with fentanyl

Florida Lawyer Normal Ashley Moody stated this might be the scariest Halloween of her lifetime — that’s the reason she’s warning households to be careful for sweet tainted with the lethal drug fentanyl.

Moody stated regulation enforcement businesses are seeing a rise in candies designed to draw kids.

The DEA lately seized12,000 fentanyl capsules in common Halloween sweet packages on the Los Angeles airport and roughly 15,000 colored-fentanyl capsules in Nerds sweet containers and Skittles sweet baggage.

“I’ve little doubt that the cartels try to purposefully goal kids at a youthful and youthful age to get them addicted, which can guarantee constant income,” Moody stated.

News4JAX reported on the current “rainbow fentanyl” development — and whereas there haven’t been any instances of tainted Halloween sweet in Florida, Moody is urging dad and mom to watch out.

A mom can also be encouraging folks by way of a gaggle she shaped known as “Blue Plaid Society.”

Suzy Pereira shaped this group after she misplaced her son Tristan Wells who was simply 26-year-old when he died from fentanyl in November 2021.

“Our objective is to not incite panic about trick-or-treating,” Pereira stated. “It’s merely to be a reminder to stay vigilant within the safety of your kids.”

It’s instructed that oldsters ought to throw away any sweet that has already been opened or appears to have been tampered with.