Happy Meal 'toy' was sold heroin in window at McDonald's, says police

WPXI TV

Police say heroin was sold in Happy Meal a McDonald's at a store in the Pittsburgh area.

By Gil Aegerter, writer, NBC News

A McDonalds worker is accused of putting something a little more in Happy Meals sold from a Pittsburgh auto: heroin.

Police said they arrested the wife of 26 years old on Wednesday after buying the drug in a McDonalds in the neighborhood of East Liberty, reported NBC WPXI of Pittsburgh station.

Here is how the operation, the Allegheny County Prosecutor told WPXI:

A customer who wanted to buy heroin would go to the speaker window and say, "I'd like to ask for a toy".The customer could then stop at the first window, pay and get a Happy Meal box containing heroin in small bags.The customer would leave without stopping in the second window.

Detectives said that what he did and arrested Shania Dennis in East Pittsburgh. The Prosecutor's Office said that detectives 10 bags of heroin in the Happy Meal box and found Dennis with over 50.

WPXI said he had the opportunity to ask Dennis if he was selling heroin. Your response? "No, I wasn't."

The station reported that it was not clear whether this case is related to the arrest this month of the worker another McDonalds accused of selling heroin in a parking lot in Murrysville, PA restaurant.