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KAYSVILLE — A Kaysville woman is claiming that she found a pill or tablet in a pizza she bought that made her son sick.
But the general manager of Little Caesar’s, 283 N. Flint Street in Kaysville, is denying that his employees put any substance surreptitiously into the pizza, according to a search warrant affidavit.
Kaysville police confirmed Monday that the incident is under investigation, but they did not have any other information about the status of the case.
The woman purchased two pizzas from the Kaysville store on Feb. 8. Her husband, 16-year-old son and her son’s friend each ate slices when the she got home, according to the affidavit filed in 2nd District Court.
“While eating the pizza near the crust end, (the son) bit into a circular tablet that had a bitter taste. (He) spit out the tablet and provided (his mother) with the foreign material,” according to the warrant.
The mother went back to Little Caesar’s and spoke to the store’s general manager “who denied the possibility the tablet could have come from their store and he believed it looked more like candy, and then explained they did not sell candy,” the affidavit says.
The mother was given a refund for both pizzas. But when she got home, she said her son “began experiencing stomach pains.”
After calling the poison control hotline, the mother took her son to the hospital. She later called police.
“(Her) biggest concern was identifying what the substance was and to make sure it did not happen to someone else,” the affidavit states.
A Kaysville police officer interviewed the restaurant’s general manager who “showed me pictures of the tablet brought in by (the mother) and stated he felt like it looked more like candy to him. (He) stated he was going to review the video surveillance to see if there was any evidence suggesting something had occurred,” according to the warrant.
The officer then went to the hospital to interview the family and asked whether “there was any chance someone had put the tablet inside the pizza once they had been home. They all three stated that was not possible,” the officer wrote. “(The son) stated he spit as much of the tablet out as he could once he tasted the tablet. (He) reported the only symptom being an upset stomach at this point.”
In the search warrant, the officer sought copies of the store’s surveillance video as well as employee information.
Calls to the family and the general manager of the restaurant were not immediately returned.
