{"id":689158,"date":"2026-05-23T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689158\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:43:13","slug":"man-charged-after-winnipeg-police-allegedly-witness-drug-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689158\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after Winnipeg police allegedly witness drug deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg police say a 37-year-old man has been charged after police allegedly witnessed a drug transaction in downtown.<\/p>\n<p>WPS says around 4:20 p.m. on May 22, officers were patrolling near Ellice Avenue and Hargrave Street, when they observed what they believed to be a hand-to-hand drug transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, police took a man into custody. Officers were then reportedly able to find and seize a loaded 9mm Browning FN High Power handgun, individually packaged quantities of crack cocaine and fentanyl, and approximately $490 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>Police have since charged 37-year-old Peter Sheldon Keeper with ten firearm and drug-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778261834_283_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police say a 37-year-old man has been charged after police allegedly witnessed a drug transaction in downtown.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-689158","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\/689158","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=689158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}