A 38-year-old is facing over 10 charges in connection with a string of thefts of government and commercial businesses in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg\u00a0Police Service\u2019s Major Crimes Unit began an investigation in February 2026, and determined the suspect was linked to multiple thefts, including the following:<\/p>\n
\n\tBetween January 12, 2026, and February 8, 2026: A man entered a community centre in the 100 block of Young Street twice and stole items valued at $600.
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\n\tBetween January 19, 2026, and January 20, 2026: A man entered a commercial business in the 300 block of Colony Street and stole items valued at $14,900.
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\n\tBetween January 23, 2026, and February 16, 2026: A man entered a government building in the 400 block of Hargrave Street and stole items valued at $12,100 and $680 in Canadian currency.
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\n\tOn January 25, 2026: A man entered a commercial business in the 100 block of Donald Street and stole an item of undetermined value.
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\n\tBetween February 1, 2026, and February 14, 2026: A man entered a commercial business in the 200 block of Princess Street twice and stole items worth $75 and $50 in Canadian currency.
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\n\tOn February 2, 2026: A man entered a commercial business in the 400 block of Portage Avenue and stole items valued at $1,300.
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\n\tOn February 5, 2026: A man entered a commercial business in the 200 block of Colony Street and stole items valued at $2,000.
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\n\tOn February 5, 2026: A man attended a commercial business in the 200 block of Portage Avenue and attempted entry but was unsuccessful.
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\n\tOn February 6, 2026: A man attended to a commercial business in the 1-99 block of Granite Way and attempted entry but was unsuccessful.
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\n\tOn February 9, 2026: A man entered a commercial business in the 100 block of Sherbrook Street and caused $5,000 worth of damage.
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All of the above incidents were captured on security surveillance and reported to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Major Crimes Unit attended to Milner Ridge Correctional Centre in Beausejour on April 9, 2026 and arrested the male suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has been\u00a0charged with the following:<\/p>\n
\n\tBreak Enter and Theft \u2013 Place x 5
\n\tBreak and Enter with Intent \u2013 Place
\n\tWarrant \u2013 Break Enter and Theft \u2013 Place x 3, Break and Enter with Intent \u2013 Place x 3, Possession of Break In Instrument(s), Mischief Under $5,000
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He remains in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old is facing over 10 charges in connection with a string of thefts of government and commercial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-617497","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\/617497","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=617497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}