{"id":742931,"date":"2026-06-17T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742931\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:50:09","slug":"winnipeg-transit-driver-charged-after-allegedly-operating-bus-while-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742931\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Transit driver charged after allegedly operating bus while impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Winnipeg Transit driver is facing charges after allegedly driving a bus while impaired.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police were called to the Winnipeg Transit bus depot in the 400 block of Osborne Street around 7 p.m. on Monday for the report of an impaired driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they learned a Winnipeg Transit employee had returned to the depot and was allegedly showing signs of being impaired by alcohol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>He was questioned by staff and subsequently arrested by police.<\/p>\n<p>A 28-year-old man\u00a0is facing charges of operation of a conveyance while impaired to any degree by BAC or drug or a combination of both, and failure or refusal to comply with demand.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on an Appearance Notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Winnipeg Transit driver is facing charges after allegedly driving a bus while impaired. Winnipeg police were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-742931","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\/742931","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=742931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}