New Zealand food bank hands out sweets with potentially lethal amounts of methamphetamine

NIEUW ZEELAND – A New Zealand charity working with homeless people has handed out sweets laced with potentially lethal doses of methamphetamine in its food parcels after they were donated by a member of the public. Auckland City Mission on Wednesday said that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets – which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers.

At least three people were treated in hospital after consuming them, New Zealand authorities said, but were later discharged. Police said an investigation is under way and a number of people of people, including a pensioner, have already contacted authorities.

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