{"id":527131,"date":"2026-03-10T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527131\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:21:08","slug":"woman-refuses-to-pay-2000-bill-at-winnipeg-beauty-boutique-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527131\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman refuses to pay $2,000 bill at Winnipeg beauty boutique: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish-date\">Posted March 10, 2026 10:11 am.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police say a woman has been charged after allegedly walking out on an expensive bill at a St. Boniface beauty boutique.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Police Service alleges the 31-year-old received $2,072 in beauty treatments at a boutique on Marion Street on Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p>The boutique told police the woman indicated she would return to pay for the services but never did.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, investigators with the WPS property crime unit arrested Brooke Tanis Smith and charged her with theft. The allegation has not been tested in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted March 10, 2026 10:11 am. Winnipeg police say a woman has been charged after allegedly walking out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-527131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527131","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=527131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}