{"id":610563,"date":"2026-04-17T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:33:08","slug":"winnipeg-woman-accused-of-tampering-with-hydro-meter-stealing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610563\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg woman accused of tampering with hydro meter, stealing power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Winnipeg woman faces charges of mischief and theft after police say she tampered with a hydro meter to use more electricity than she was allowed and without paying for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manitoba Hydro had placed a load-limiting device on the meter at the woman&#8217;s Glenwood neighbourhood home in March, due to her failing to pay her bills, a news release from police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The limiter restricts hydro use to the operation of a furnace during winter months, police said.<\/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\">About two weeks later, once the account was paid, a hydro worker went to remove the limiter but found it had been forcibly removed, allowing power theft, the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The\u00a046-year-old woman\u00a0was arrested this week, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hydro has seen &#8220;significant increases of electrical meter tampering and theft&#8221; in recent years and will report any incident to police for potential criminal charges, the release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Winnipeg woman faces charges of mischief and theft after police say she tampered with a hydro meter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,230058,163086,230057,22073],"class_list":["post-610563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-electrical-meter","tag-manitoba-hydro","tag-power-theft","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610563","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=610563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}