This year's Halloween was not a happy time for two young trick-or-treaters in Salem, Oregon. After five hours of collecting candy, the brother-and-sister team was robbed of their bounty by a group of older boys.
But thanks to a local stranger who saw a Craigslist ad about the incident, the kids wound up getting a pile of sweets anyway.
The Statesman Journal reports that 13-year-old Michael Harper and his 10-year-old sister Michelle received a very special delivery on Thursday. A police officer brought 10 pounds of candy as well as cash for next year's Halloween costumes to their northeast Salem home.
The candy and money was supposedly donated after an anonymous stranger noticed that one of the kids' family members posted a warning about the candy robbery on Craigslist.
The teenage boys who snatched the kids' candy — one of whom punched Michael in the ribs during the crime — do not appear to have been apprehended yet. But police do say that they could face second- or third-degree robbery charges when that happens.
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