WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Police Service is reporting a very busy weekend. There was an especially high number of calls for service. Here’s a list… – 14 reports of shots fired – 16 reports of assault with a weapon – 72 reports of assault – 10 gun calls – 8 stabbings – 36 reports of…
MURDER ARREST
WINNIPEG – Police have made an arrest in the killing of Robert James Forbister. 34 year old Brian Jamie Cromarty has been charged with second degree murder. Forbister was stabbed to death last Friday near Portage Avenue and Sherbrook Street. This is the city’s 19th murder of the year.
MURDER @ PORTAGE & SHERBROOK
WINNIPEG – Last week’s stabbing is this week’s murder as the victim has died from his injuries. Police believe 33 year Robert James Forbister was assaulted early Friday morning about four o’clock near Portage Avenue and Sherbrook Street. Investigators would like to hear from you if you saw anything. They’re also asking people in the…
SEVERAL STABBINGS
WINNIPEG – Police are investigating a number of stabbing incidents in the past few days. The first happened Friday afternoon on Hargrave Street. The latest occured early this morning on Ellice Avenue. Some of the victims were hurt badly and taken to hospital but all will survive. Several people have been arrested. The youngest suspect…
MURDER ON AGNES
WINNIPEG – Last Thursday, police responded to gunshots being fired into a house in the 400 block of Agnes Street. A man with a gunshot wound was taken to hospital for treatment and was released two days later after stabilizing. 59 year old Disdale White has since died after a medical emergency at his home.…
GHOST GUNS & WEAPONS TRAFFICING
WINNIPEG – Police have charged a man with weapons trafficking and they’ve seized more than two dozen guns. 31 year old Corey James Boyd, was arrested after a man tried to buy a prohibited component for an AR-15 rifle from a firearms reseller in the city. The investigation led to the execution of a search…
WINNIPEGGER CHARGED, 6 KILOS DRUGS
WINNIPEG – Manitoba RCMP are reporting the seizure of five kilograms of Meth and a kilo of Coke. This follows a four month investigation and the execution of a search warrant at a Tyndall Park home. 34 year old Stacey Rae Ballantyne of Winnipeg faces several charges. The investigation is ongoing. “Over the past 6…
NAKED MAN STEALS AMBULANCE
WINNIPEG – Police say an ambulance was stolen this morning not far from Health Sciences Centre. The crew of the ambulance was helping a naked man near Notre Dame Avenue and Furby Street when the guy jumped behind the wheel and took off. He crashed the ambulance into the Portuguese Cultural Centre a few blocks…
SCARY CLOSE CALL
WINNIPEG – A Thunder Bay man is under arrest after city police were called to Ellice Avenue this week. On Tuesday, officers entered the business in the 1300 block of Ellice to find a guy armed with a baseball bat but the really scary part was that he had doused himself with lighter fluid and…
DEADLY STABBING ON BUS
WINNIPEG – A man is dead after being stabbed during an altercation on a Winnipeg Transit bus. Yesterday afternoon, police were flagged down near Colony Street and Ellice Avenue. They boarded the bus and gave first aid to the stabbing victim who died later in hospital. 46 year old Justin Gabriel James is charged with…