{"id":899428,"date":"2026-09-17T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899428\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:32:10","slug":"man-20-charged-nearly-2-months-after-winnipeg-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899428\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 20, charged nearly 2 months after Winnipeg sexual assault"},"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 1 minute<\/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>A 20-year-old man has been charged nearly two months after a woman was sexually assaulted while walking in Winnipeg over the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A woman was walking around 10:30 p.m. on July 19 when she was grabbed by a man she didn&#8217;t know and pulled into an alcove near Canora Street and Picardy Place, Winnipeg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/public-advisory-random-sexual-assault-9.7279828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police previously said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man threatened the woman and then choked, sexually assaulted and robbed her, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time, police sent out a description of the man to help find him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A suspect was identified after a forensic analysis, and an arrest warrant was issued, police said in an update on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the sex crimes unit went to the Headingley Correctional Institution on Tuesday, where they arrested a 20-year-old man who was in custody for an unrelated reason, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man has been charged with sexual assault and uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is still in custody, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-899428","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\/899428","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=899428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}