{"id":559835,"date":"2026-03-25T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559835\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:54:16","slug":"large-police-presence-in-winnipegs-osborne-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559835\/","title":{"rendered":"Large police presence in Winnipeg&#8217;s Osborne Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A large police presence is in Winnipeg&#8217;s Osborne Village as part of an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>An area has been cordoned off near the Shell gas station at Osborne Avenue and Roslyn Road.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not provided information on what is happening, other than a social media post saying there is no imminent risk to public safety and it is a contained investigation.<\/p>\n<p>John Wintrup, who lives in the area, said he heard a flashbang go off around 5:15 a.m. A flashbang, or stun grenade, is an\u00a0explosive device that\u00a0produces a loud noise and blinding flash of light to disorient someone.<\/p>\n<p>Wintrup said he then heard police saying they had a warrant for someone&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The heavily-armed police tactical unit appears to be focused on a house behind the Shell station.<\/p>\n<p>Police say no streets are closed, though traffic could be slowed through the area.<\/p>\n<p>There is no access at the moment to Shoppers Drug Mart, the entrance of which is a few metres from the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-559835","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\/559835","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=559835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}