{"id":864308,"date":"2026-08-19T23:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864308\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:36:22","slug":"passenger-throws-beer-can-bites-winnipeg-bus-driver-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864308\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger throws beer can, bites Winnipeg bus driver: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Winnipeg bus driver was allegedly bitten, and a transit supervisor was punched in the face it two separate incidents on Tuesday, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Police Service says a man randomly threw a beer can at a bus driver as he was leaving the bus at Dunkirk Avenue and Kingston Row around 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the driver then tried restraining the passenger but was bit by him.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Mann, 51, was arrested and charged with assault. The allegation against him has not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, police say a Winnipeg Transit supervisor was \u201cconducting fare enforcement outside a stopped bus\u201d at Main Street and Pioneer Avenue when he was allegedly punched in the face by a woman refusing to pay.<\/p>\n<p>The transit employee held the 31-year-old woman until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>She is facing a charge of assaulting a peace officer.<\/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":"A Winnipeg bus driver was allegedly bitten, and a transit supervisor was punched in the face it two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-864308","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\/864308","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=864308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}