Pair now charged after allegedly handing out cannabis candies to Winnipeg trick-or-treaters
Pair now charged after allegedly handing out cannabis candies to Winnipeg trick-or-treaters
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-halloween-trick-or-treat-cannabis-candy-1.6703603
Two people who were arrested after police said they handed out cannabis candies to Winnipeg trick-or-treaters as young as six have now been formally charged.
Sheldon Chochinov and Tammy Sigurdur are charged with numerous offences, including 13 counts each of distributing cannabis to a young person and distributing cannabis knowing it’s illicit.
Under the Cannabis Act, criminal offences related to providing cannabis to youth can carry maximum penalties of 14 years in jail.
Both Chochinov and Sigurdur appeared at provincial court on Tuesday.
Police previously only announced they had arrested a 63-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman after searching a home near the south end of Coleraine Crescent.
The update comes about two months after police said officers received more than a dozen reports about the Halloween candies from a small area in a south Tuxedo neighbourhood.
The children who received the candies ranged from six to 16 years old, police previously said. There were no reports of harm to children who got the candies.
