Police are investigating a report that three children over the weekend fell ill after consuming what appeared to be cocaine-laced gold finger sweets which they had purchased from a shop at White Water, Region One, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has confirmed.
Persaud when contacted yesterday said that based on reports the children had an “unusual reaction” when they tried to consume the sweets. He said that the police have to send the sweets for analysis to ascertain whether there was any cocaine. He said too that investigators have taken statements from the shop owner as well as the person that they had initially bought the sweets from. No one has been arrested. Sources say that one of the two persons interviewed by police was a businesswoman from Kumaka