{"id":931002,"date":"2026-10-13T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931002\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:26:10","slug":"woman-45-charged-after-handgun-incident-in-taxi-cab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931002\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 45, charged after handgun incident in taxi cab"},"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 class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A woman was arrested after she pulled up a handgun on a taxi driver, Winnipeg police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Officers responded to reports of an armed person near the intersection of Concordia Avenue and Louelda Street at around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, police said in a release Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The woman had produced a handgun after entering a taxi in the area, directing the driver to go to a specific location, the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The driver activated his emergency beacon, left the vehicle and contacted police, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Winnipeg police said the woman moved into the driver&#8217;s seat, but the keys had been removed. Police took her into custody nearby after she tried to flee on foot, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A 45-year-old woman is facing multiple firearm-related charges, including charges related to possession of a weapon contrary to prohibition orders, and carrying a concealed weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">She remained in custody.<\/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":931003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-931002","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\/931002","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=931002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}