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S3 Ep327: Man Gives Sedative-Laced Candy to Kids & Matt Rife Buys ‘The Conjuring' House

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A UK man has been arrested after allegedly handing out candy laced with sedatives to children at a summer camp. Police reported that the candy was distributed in the Staffordshire area, leaving eight boys and one adult in the hospital. Authorities are continuing their investigation.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Lavasar. And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:19.2

And today, we're going to start with a story that is frightening.

0:23.1

It didn't happen in this country, but still something we all need to be aware of, especially if you

0:27.6

have children. And that's part of what Crime Weekly News is to, you know, bolos be on the lookout for certain

0:32.2

people who are on the run or just cases that could happen anywhere that we all have to be more cognizant of and understand that it can happen right in your own backyard. And speaking of backyard, our second story that we're going to talk about is something a little bit on the lighter note, but something close to Stephanie's heart. And it literally is in my backyard. And we've taught, we talked about it a few years ago.

0:54.6

You're a little, you're feeling a little bit of fomo right now.

0:56.7

And we're going to get to that.

0:57.5

I am because it's your fault. That's not wrong. We're going to get to it. That's not wrong. That's not wrong. But we'll start with the more serious note first because this is something that as a dad myself. I hate reading these stories, but I also am glad that the news is out there and

0:55.6

exists because even as a former police officer, I'm I hate reading these stories, but I also am glad that the news is out there and exist because

1:12.8

even as a former police officer, I'm still learning every day.

1:16.1

And I want to learn the, the actions and the behaviors of these psychos to understand how

1:22.1

to better protect the people I care about.

1:23.9

So the unfortunate side is that it's happening.

1:26.8

The positive is that we can take it and we can

1:28.7

learn from it and better protect those that are close to us because you can kind of see the mannerisms.

1:33.2

You can see the behaviors. You can see the tactics that are being used. And as the, you know,

1:37.8

the defensive side of things, we can take measures to prevent it from happening to the people we care

1:42.7

about or at least just take an

1:45.3

extra precaution or two if we do find ourselves in a similar situation. So hit us with the story,

1:50.8

and then we'll talk about it. This happened in England, Lester, to be specific. And trust me,

1:56.8

I learned my lesson. About saying it wrong. Yeah. And like, I feel like eight years ago, I did a Madeline McCann series and I pronounced it Lichester because that's how it's spelled. And I still to this day get comments of people saying it's Lester, not Lichester. And I'm like, yeah, it's been almost 10 years. You don't think anybody's told me that by now. I get it. I learned my lesson. We have a couple. Spokane was a big one, I think, for us. We said Spokane or whatever it was. Spokane, yeah. Yeah, that one came back to bite us in the ass as well. Well, this is a man, a 76-year-old man, John Rubin, who was arrested for allegedly giving boys at a summer camp candy

2:37.7

laced with a sedative. This happened about 120 miles north of London. They were eight boys

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