{"id":666781,"date":"2026-05-13T13:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666781\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:55:20","slug":"winnipeg-police-seize-21-loaded-handguns-in-central-park-drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666781\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police seize 21 loaded handguns in Central Park drug bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A search warrant at a Central Park area residence led to the seizure of dozens of firearms as well as drugs.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the report of drug trafficking at the residence started this month, and on May 7, with help from the Tactical Support Team, the Winnipeg Police Service&#8217;s Organized Crime Unit executed a search warrant on a suite in an apartment in the 300 blcok of Cumberland Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The search led to the discovery and seizure of 21 loaded restricted handguns, a silencer, a mixture of ammunition of various calibres,\u00a027 grams of cocaine (estimated street value = $2,160), approximately $25,000 in Canadian currency, a laptop and two cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>A 24-year-old Winnipeg man is facing a long list of weapons and drug trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p>He remains in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search warrant at a Central Park area residence led to the seizure of dozens of firearms as&hellip;\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-666781","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\/666781","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=666781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666781\/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=666781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}