4 Nov 2022

Police concerned as thieves steal potentially fatal vet drugs

From Checkpoint, 5:48 pm on 4 November 2022

Theives have stolen vet drugs that could potentially kill a person just by getting it on their skin.

Pentobarbitone is used to euthanise animals and police fear the people who've pinched it from a car in Palmerston North might think they have something else.

Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Wilson is warning people if they come across discarded medical viles do not touch them with bare hands.

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