Parents in southeast Vancouver are being warned by police to check their children's Halloween treats, following the discovery of pills in some treat bags.
 
Vancouver police spokesman Const. Howard Chow said four parents have reported discovering items that weren't candies in their children's bag.

Const. Howard Chow holds up a picture of some of the pills found in a Halloween treat bag.
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"We had a parent call police and indicated she had been eating candy from her child's Halloween treats from the night before, and as she bit into one of the candies she realized that it wasn't a candy, and that it was something quite different," Chow said.

"She spit it out. And it turns out it was one of these," he said, holding up a photo of two of the pills. "What appears on the front is Tylenol 500 on a red-coated pill."

Chow said the drugs were mixed in with candies inside a sealed "grab bag."  He said there were one or two pills in each of the bags.

Police are still trying to determine the source of the pills.

Chow said there have been no reports of any of the pills being consumed by children.