Portage la Prairie RCMP<\/a> were called to a business at approximately 4:45 p.m. on July 10 after receiving reports that two individuals were harassing staff and refusing to leave the property.<\/p>\nWhen officers arrived, they located the two men and arrested them without incident.<\/p>\n
Police say one of the suspects, a 26-year-old man, told officers he had a large knife inside a shoulder bag he was carrying. RCMP searched the bag and seized the knife.<\/p>\n
Related stories:<\/p>\n
Wanted by Winnipeg police<\/p>\n
During the investigation, officers learned the man was wanted by the Winnipeg Police Service for breaching the conditions of a probation order. RCMP say those conditions included several restrictions related to weapons.<\/p>\n
As a result, 26-year-old Luke Courchene has been charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and two counts of failing to comply with a probation order and\u00a0is expected to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n
The second man arrested at the scene was later released without charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A call about two men refusing to leave a Portage la Prairie business last week has led to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-803800","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\/803800","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=803800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}