{"id":508045,"date":"2026-03-01T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:29:08","slug":"winnipeg-police-say-two-women-charged-after-boy-taken-from-home-mother-assaulted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508045\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police say two women charged after boy taken from home, mother assaulted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WINNIPEG \u2014 Winnipeg police say two women have been charged after a two-year-old boy was taken from a home and found hours later by a citizen who recognized the trio from an Amber Alert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the women took the toddler from his biological mother&#8217;s home in the south end of the city Friday around 10 a.m. after assaulting the mother, who they knew, with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About three hours later, police say an Amber Alert was issued for the boy.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two women and the toddler were later recognized by a citizen as they exited a taxi in the city&#8217;s north end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the citizen took the child, who was uninjured, away from the women and waited for officers to arrive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the two women, who are ages 30 and 25, are facing multiple charges related to abduction and assault, and the 25-year-old woman is facing an additional charge after she was found in possession of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 Winnipeg police say two women have been charged after a two-year-old boy was taken from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[51758,152970,49,48,944,22073,179229],"class_list":["post-508045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-amber-alert","tag-biological-mother","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}