Man Who Handed out Cocaine on Halloween Sentenced to Community Service

By Emma O'Connor, TIME

Man Who Handed out Cocaine on Halloween Sentenced to Community Service

November 23, 2012 Updated Nov 23, 2012 at 2:24 PM PDT

Every parent knows to dread the post-Halloween sugar high, but at least that’s the only kind of high most can expect on Oct. 31. In the UK, however, one local drug enthusiast did his best to change that, accidentally handing out bags of cocaine to a group of trick-0r-treaters as young as five years old, Reuters reported.

On Nov. 19 a court in the town of Oldham, in northern England, sentenced Donald Junior Green, a 23-year-old apprentice auto-body repairman, to 130 hours of community service for drug possession.

When the kids approached his girlfriend’s door on Halloween, Green took a handful of plastic pouches containing the drugs and handed them over, mistaking them for bags of child-appropriate Haribo gummy candies the couple had been giving out earlier.

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