{"id":849683,"date":"2026-08-07T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849683\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:18:10","slug":"winnipeg-transit-operator-allegedly-stabbed-by-person-not-wanting-to-pay-fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849683\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg transit operator allegedly stabbed by person not wanting to pay fare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg police say a Winnipeg transit operator is in hospital following an assault on a bus on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>WPS says officers responded to a report of a stabbing around 1:18 a.m. on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Police attended the scene and learned that a rider became disruptive after being asked to pay the fare and allegedly stabbed the driver before leaving the bus.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was taken to hospital in stable condition with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has any information is asked to contact investigators at 204-986-6219 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-8477.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police say a Winnipeg transit operator is in hospital following an assault on a bus on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-849683","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\/849683","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=849683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}