Winnipeg police say a woman was assaulted and robbed downtown last month while trying to help a man believed to be overdosing.<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Police Service says it happened March 19 shortly before 5 p.m. on Logan Avenue and Main Street.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the 45-year-old woman spotted a collapsed man believed to be overdosing, and she attempted to provide aid.<\/p>\n
Police say as she was calling 911, she was allegedly physically assaulted by a man and robbed of her cellphone and smartwatch.<\/p>\n
She sustained minor injuries and was cleared by the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service.<\/p>\n
The WPS major crimes unit is looking for a suspect described as five-foot-10, with short hair and clean-shaven, and neck and hand tattoos. He was wearing a black jacket and black jeans.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call 204-986-6219 or anonymously at Crime Stoppers 204-786-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police say a woman was assaulted and robbed downtown last month while trying to help a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-586533","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\/586533","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=586533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}