When ordering a McDonald's Happy Meal, one can expect the customary burger, fries and a toy. But one McDonald's employee decided to add a special ingredient- a bag of heroin.
An employee at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania McDonald's was busted Wednesday for selling Happy Meals filled with heroin, CNN reported.
In a drug buy set up, undercover officers caught 26-year-old Shanita Dennis handing heroin filled- Happy Meal boxes to customers through the drive-thru window.
Customers were told to approach the drive-thru and say "I'd like to order a toy," Mike Manko, spokesman for the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office, told CNN in a statement. The customer then drove up to the first window, where they would pay and then take a Happy Meal box with heroin bags.
The undercover officers found 10 bags of heroin inside one Happy Meal box, and another 50 bags of heroin after they arrested Dennis. Authorities also found pot, CNN reported.
Police charged Dennis with two counts of possession, one count of prohibited acts of delivery, one count of possession with intent to deliver and one count of criminal use of a communication facility, CNN reported.
Dennis, from East Pittsburgh, said she did not do anything wrong, the Associated Press reported. Police set up the operation when an informant said someone was dealing drugs at an East Liberty McDonald's, the AP reported.
Dennis was not the only McDonald's employee to be apprehended for selling drugs. Another employee was arrested earlier this month for dealing heroin out of a Murrysville restaurant, the AP reported.
Investigators do not believe Wednesday's heroin bust is linked to the overdose deaths of 22 people in southwest Pennsylvania. Their deaths are reportedly related to heroin that contained fentanyl, a rapid-acting narcotic, the AP reported.
The Pittsburgh McDonald's did not grant CNN's request for comment.
