Greene County Sheriff’s office offering to scan Halloween candy for ‘foreign objects’

XENIA — Halloween is Monday and a local sheriff’s office is doing something unique to help keep you kids safe.

>>PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Deputies scan Halloween candy in Greene County for ‘foreign objects’

Law enforcement wants parents to check their children’s candy.

News Center 7′s Gabrielle Enright says for a good part of two decades, the Greene County Sheriff’s Office has offered to scan your child’s candy.

After kids collect their candy, deputies will scan it for free using their x-ray machine at the Greene County Common Pleas Courthouse.

Enright reports they will do it for free on Monday, October 31 Halloween Night, from 6:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at the courthouse on North Detroit Street in Xenia.

The x-ray machine will help detect any kind of foreign object that should not be in your child’s candy.

But they don’t have the equipment to scan for narcotics.

Enright this is something the sheriff’s office has done for years, just as a precaution.

They had not found anything suspicious, as of last year when she spoke with deputies.

For information, visit the Greene County Sheriff’s Office Facebook Page.

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