{"id":628353,"date":"2026-04-25T19:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628353\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:50:20","slug":"winnipeg-police-arrest-2-suspects-in-firearms-drug-trafficking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628353\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police arrest 2 suspects in firearms, drug trafficking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg police (WPS) arrested two men in connection with a firearms and drug trafficking case in Elmwood.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they executed a search warrant at a house in the 1-99 block of Watt Street on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>During the operation, police say they seized guns, $8,700 worth of methamphetamine, $4,300 worth of fentanyl, drug packaging materials, cellphone, cash, among others as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Dwayne McNabb, 40, and Robert Jeffery McNabb, 44 have been charged with multiple firearms, drug trafficking, possession of stolen property, and proceeds of crime offences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation stemmed from multiple reports from community members of concerned with local drug trafficking involving this Elmwood residence,\u201d WPS said. \u201cThe suspects and residence were directly attributed to a rash of recent drug overdoses in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both men were detained in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations have yet to be tested in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police (WPS) arrested two men in connection with a firearms and drug trafficking case in Elmwood. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-628353","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\/628353","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=628353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}