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<\/p>\nA spree of credit card thefts from gym lockers across Winnipeg, totalling more than $8,000 in fraudulent purchases, resulted in charges for four Ontario residents, according to police.<\/p>\n
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Thefts occurred almost daily from March 12 to 18, and about $4,000 was spent on one of the stolen cards. Reports of stolen debit and credit cards<\/a> from fitness facilities were received from across the city, a news release from the Winnipeg Police<\/a> Service (WPS) said.<\/p>\n The suspects gained access to the gym locker rooms by telling staff they were interested in joining.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n \u201c(On) March 12, 2026: a locker was broken into and a wallet containing a credit card was stolen from a fitness facility in the 100 block of South Town Road. Several fraudulent transactions totaling approximately $1,255 were made shortly after,\u201d the WPS said.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Then, two days later, another card was stolen from a gym on Newmarket Boulevard and $825 was spent, it added.<\/p>\n More than a month after the thefts stopped, three arrests were made. A 40-year-old man, 39-year-old man and 41-year-old woman, all from Scarborough, Ont., were arrested at the 600-block of St. Anne\u2019s Road on April 23.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore on Crime The 40-year-old was charged with seven counts of fraud under $5,000, seven counts of unauthorized use of credit card data, seven counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000 and failure to comply with a court order.<\/p>\n The 39-year-old will face two counts of breaking and\u00a0entering\u00a0to\u00a0commit\u00a0a crime, as well as a charge for failure to\u00a0comply with\u00a0a court order.<\/p>\n Police also said the woman will face three counts for breaking and entering to commit a crime.<\/p>\n Five days later, a 52-year-old Scarborough man was charged with eight counts of fraud under $5,000, eight counts of unauthorized use of a credit card and eight counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spree of credit card thefts from gym lockers across Winnipeg, totalling more than $8,000 in fraudulent purchases,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,6897,2169,22073,179229],"class_list":["post-641358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-credit-cards","tag-crime","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641358","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=641358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Get](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\")
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