{"id":560418,"date":"2026-03-25T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560418\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:55:08","slug":"man-charged-for-allegedly-drugging-sexually-assaulting-another-man-winnipeg-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560418\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged for allegedly drugging, sexually assaulting another man: Winnipeg police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg police say a 56-year-old man has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting another man he met through a dating app.<\/p>\n<p>WPS says in February, officers began an investigation after receiving a report of an alleged sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The report indicates that in December 2025, the man made an acquaintance with another man on a social website, which led them to meet in person on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that during one of the meetings, they were at a home in the eastern part of the city, when the one was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>Through an investigation, police took 56-year-old Russell George Wyatt into custody on March 24, and have since charged him with sexual assault and administering a noxious thing with intent to aggrieve or annoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police say a 56-year-old man has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting another man he met through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-560418","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\/560418","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=560418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}