GASTON COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - A Gaston County mother says someone threw out more than just candy at the Belmont Christmas parade on Tuesday.

According to Tiesha Newsome, the family was having a great time at the parade until her 5-year old son found a strong painkiller mixed in with his bag of parade candy.

She told WBTV a hydrocodone painkiller pill, one pill, was mixed in with a bag of candy people were throwing out from floats.

"This is a pill in my son's candy. I feel bad, because Halloween time, you check your kids candy. You think about it. You know what I mean," Newsome said. "It was a parade they were throwing the candy out. They were stuffing them in their pockets, I didn't think nothing of it."

She says she didn't the pill was there until her son asked her what it was from the backseat of their car on the way home.

GASTON COUNTY - The Gaston County Police Department is offering up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of those involved in the recent theft of undergarments.

Police were called to a warehouse in Gaston County after 500 cases of Belton t-shirts and briefs went missing.

GASTONIA - A Gaston County elementary school principal called police after he found drugs smeared on the side of his school on Monday.

According to a Gastonia Police report, officers were called to Robinson Elementary School on 3122 Union Road after principal Bill Kessler found a white powder on the brick wall near the office of the school. Officer did a test on the powder and determined that it was cocaine.

The school which homes students from kindergarten to 3rd grade is not scheduled to open on August 25th, with orientation starting on August 22nd.