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Three men have now been charged in the 2024 kidnapping of a delivery driver in Winnipeg who was held at gunpoint for several hours, police say.<\/p>\n
The charges come after a lengthy investigation into the incident, police said in a news release on Friday.<\/p>\n
On the evening of Oct. 11, 2024, a\u00a022-year-old man\u00a0was delivering merchandise to a business on Nairn Avenue, between Stadacona and Allan streets in the city’s Elmwood neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
He was confronted by a man who put a gun to the driver’s head and forced him into an enclosed trailer, police said. The victim’s cellphone and the merchandise he was delivering were stolen.<\/p>\n
The victim was held at gunpoint under threats of harm to him and his family while being driven to a storage facility on Notre Dame Avenue and Clifton Street, where he was forced to give the access codes to a storage unit.<\/p>\n
The men then stole more merchandise, worth approximately $25,000, which was then taken to various properties in the city while the victim remained confined, according to police.<\/p>\n
The victim was eventually driven back to the Nairn Avenue location where the kidnapping began, and was left there physically unhurt.<\/p>\n
He reported the incident to police, who eventually identified three suspects.<\/p>\n
A 41-year-old man was arrested on Sherbrook Street, north of the Health Sciences Centre, on Dec. 20, 2024. During his arrest, crew in the police service’s helicopter saw him toss a gun into a garbage bin, according to the news release. It was recovered and found to have been stolen.<\/p>\n
Officers also seized approximately 50 cartons of unstamped cigarettes.<\/p>\n
The second man, a 34-year-old, was arrested on July 31, 2025, near McPhillips Street and Notre Dame Avenue. Police say they seized a knife, five grams of methamphetamine, and 2.5 grams of cocaine.<\/p>\n
The third arrest came on July 6 of this year. Officers with the Treaty Three Police Service in northwestern Ontario took a\u00a035-year-old man into custody, and turned him over to police in Manitoba.<\/p>\n
All three men have been charged with kidnapping, armed robbery, extortion, uttering threats, and breaking and entering.<\/p>\n
The man arrested in 2022, now 43 years old, has also been charged with a number of firearm-related offences, failing to comply with previous court orders and possession of contraband cigarettes.<\/p>\n
The man arrested last July is additionally charged with firearms offences, failing to comply with release conditions and possession of drugs.<\/p>\n
All three remain in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-793531","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\/793531","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=793531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}