{"id":719369,"date":"2026-06-06T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719369\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:08:09","slug":"manitoba-man-36-charged-with-luring-ohio-child-on-snapchat-winnipeg-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719369\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba man, 36, charged with luring Ohio child on Snapchat: Winnipeg police"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 36-year-old Headingley man who police say was communicating with an Ohio child on Snapchat is facing several charges, including possession of child sexual abuse material and luring.<\/p>\n

Internet child-exploitation unit officials started investigating last month after the U.S.-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children told Winnipeg police that a local man was communicating online with a child in Ohio, police said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Investigators found the man had engaged in ongoing conversations with a child, the release says. A police spokesperson told CBC News the man used Snapchat to communicate with the child in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A warrant was obtained to search his Headingley home, the release says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Internet child-exploitation unit investigators and an electronics-detection dog<\/a> seized multiple electronic devices during a search on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The man has been charged with possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material; making, printing, publishing or possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material for the purpose of publication; three counts of transmitting, making available, distributing or selling sexually explicit material to a person under 18 years old; and two counts of luring a person under 18 years-old via telecommunication.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police says he has been released on an undertaking, which includes protective conditions for children under 18. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-719369","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\/719369","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=719369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}