{"id":839068,"date":"2026-07-31T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839068\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:20:10","slug":"7-charged-after-drugs-weapons-seized-from-west-broadway-home-winnipeg-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839068\/","title":{"rendered":"7 charged after drugs, weapons seized from West Broadway home: Winnipeg police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Seven people have been charged after drugs and weapons were found during a search of a West Broadway home following complaints about suspected drug trafficking, Winnipeg police say.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, officers searched a home on Young Street just south of Portage Avenue after community members complained about suspected illegal conduct there, police said in a Friday news release.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News saw several police officers and vehicles \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/winnipeg-armoured-vehicle-deployments-1.5171785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the service&#8217;s armoured vehicle<\/a> \u2014 outside the home on Wednesday afternoon, as well as a police dog.<\/p>\n<p>Police say officers seized two sawed-off shotguns, ammunition and several swords\/machetes inside the home, as well as approximately one ounce of fentanyl, two grams of crack cocaine and $1,600 in currency.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Three police officers stand in the front yard of a home, with a police dog and armoured vehicle.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785536410_955_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Officers were seen with a police dog outside the home on Wednesday. (CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Two men, ages 53 and 32, and three women, ages 29, 27 and 26, have all been charged with multiple firearms-related offences, along with possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking and possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime under $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old man, and the 27- and 39-year-old women, were also each charged with posession of a weapon and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>All five were detained in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Two other women, ages 29 and 40, were charged with similar offences but released on a promise to appear in court, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police spokesperson Claude Chancy told CBC News it&#8217;s not uncommon for all people present during a search to be charged individually when officers find any drugs.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;multitude of charges can be applied&#8221; to a single firearms offence, he said.<\/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.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-839068","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\/839068","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=839068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}