Winnipeg police arrest 2 in month-long string of commercial break-ins

Two suspects are successful custody aft a drawstring of commercialized break-ins, Winnipeg police say.

Officers were called to a edifice connected Provencher Boulevard conscionable earlier 5 a.m. Monday, wherever they spotted a smashed model and 2 radical wrong the building.

The suspects ran retired the backmost door, constabulary said — 1 was arrested immediately, portion the different allegedly sprayed a pursuing serviceman successful the look with carnivore spray.

He was arrested, and the serviceman was treated for the effects of the spray.

Further probe by the large crimes portion linked the 2 men to a rash of break-ins astatine much than 15 Winnipeg businesses, focused astir the St. James and Provencher neighbourhoods, implicit a month-long period.

A 35-year-old fishy faces a whopping 17 break-and-enter charges, arsenic good arsenic limb possession. He was besides the taxable of 4 outstanding warrants.

The 2nd man, 23, has been charged with assaulting a bid serviceman with a weapon, battle with a weapon, 2 counts of limb possession, interruption and enter, and was the taxable of 2 warrants of his own.