{"id":622006,"date":"2026-04-22T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622006\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:49:11","slug":"smoke-screen-grenade-taken-from-intoxicated-man-at-grace-hospital-winnipeg-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622006\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke-screen grenade taken from intoxicated man at Grace Hospital: Winnipeg police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An intoxicated man at Grace Hospital had a grenade that was later found to be a non-explosive smoke canister, Winnipeg police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man went into the hospital early Monday and encountered security, who found he had what turned out to be a smoke-screen training grenade, police said in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers were then sent to the Grace, around 5:30 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The device was later turned over to the Winnipeg police bomb unit, who deemed it non-explosive but active.<\/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\">Smoke-screen grenades are designed to cloak movement and are of military origin, police said in an email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police arrested a 45-year-old man for possession of a firearm, possession of a restricted\/prohibited weapon, and two counts of possession of a firearm part or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They are investigating where the grenade came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intoxicated man at Grace Hospital had a grenade that was later found to be a non-explosive smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,233376,233374,233375,22073,179229],"class_list":{"0":"post-622006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-grace-hospital","11":"tag-grenade","12":"tag-smoke-screen","13":"tag-winnipeg","14":"tag-winnipeg-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622006","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=622006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}