Man charged after fracas at Burger King in Osborne Village

By: Free Press staff Posted: 3:32 PM CDT Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2025

A man has been charged with multiple offences for causing a disturbance at a fast-food restaurant in Osborne Village on Monday night.

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A man has been charged with multiple offences for causing a disturbance at a fast-food restaurant in Osborne Village on Monday night.

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A man has been charged with multiple offences for causing a disturbance at a fast-food restaurant in Osborne Village on Monday night.

Officers were sent to the Burger King at 244 Osborne St., at about 8:10 p.m. and were confronted by a man behaving erratically inside the restaurant, which was in disarray, police said Tuesday.

Police used a Taser on the man and found bear spray, a pellet gun and about 16 grams of cocaine on him, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Tuesday.

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS FILES
Police used a Taser on a man at the Burger King on Osborne Street on Monday night after he allegedly demanded food, damaged transparent barriers and tried to get into an office where employees were hiding. — MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS FILES

Police used a Taser on a man at the Burger King on Osborne Street on Monday night after he allegedly demanded food, damaged transparent barriers and tried to get into an office where employees were hiding.

Paramedics checked the man and medically cleared him.

Police were told the man approached the counter aggressively while demanding food and then pulled down transparent barriers, which shattered on the ground.

Employees went to the back office and called police, and the man tried to get into the room until officers arrived, police said.

No staff members were injured.

A 26-year-old man Winnipeg is charged with mischief under $5,000, possession of cocaine and two counts each of possession of a weapon and failing to comply with a probation order. He was detained in custody.

He was placed on one year of supervised probation in July after pleading guilty to breaking-and-entering and committing mischief. He was sentenced at the same hearing to 15 days in custody for possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

At that time, he would have recently completed a one-year unsupervised probation order imposed in June 2023, when he pleaded guilty to uttering threats and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

He pleaded guilty in June 2021 to assault and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and was sentenced to 19 days for the assault and 135 days served for the other charge. He received a one-year unsupervised probation order and a two-year weapon prohibition.

On April 2, 2024, a 45-year-old man was slashed with a knife at the restaurant. A 25-year-old man — not the same person charged in the incident Monday night — was charged with aggravated assault, robbery, and offences related to violating an undertaking and a probation order.

Police said at the time that the man and the victim were acquaintances and were involved in a dispute before the morning violence.

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