Police Find No Tampering With Food At Aston Grocery

Posted: December 25, 1996

ASTON — Township police have found no evidence of food tampering in the Shop 'N' Bag in the Dutton Mill Shopping Center on Pennell Road.

About 9:45 p.m. Saturday, police said, they received a call from the grocery reporting that several leaflets were found on the shelves. The leaflets said food had been tampered with by ``angry animal rights activists,'' who wished to close the Aston Pet Center, also in the shopping center.

The Aston Pet Center has been the target of protests since last December, resulting from allegations that the store kept animals in unfit conditions. Pet store owner Norman Wheeler has denied the allegations.

John J. Hallinan, spokesman for the Aston grocery, said that surveillance tapes showed no evidence of tampering and that store employees ``worked all Saturday night carefully inspecting all merchandise and products.'' He said there was no affiliation between the pet shop and the grocery.

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