News briefs for Saturday, March 7, 2026

Three teens arrested after delivery driver robbed

9:26 AM

Winnipeg police have arrested three teens after a 26-year-old pizza delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint in the West End, a Saturday news release says.

Police say the delivery driver arrived at an apartment complex on the 500 block of Victor Street around 7:30 p.m. and was met by a female suspect, before being approached by two male suspects who brandished a handgun and demanded his pizza bag.

The victim fled and was not harmed.

One suspect was arrested just before 10 p.m. on the 400 block of Broadway. Around 11 p.m., the other male and female suspects were arrested at the Victor Street complex.

Police found the weapon and determined it was a CO2 propelled gun.

The teens are facing a charge of armed robbery using a firearm. They were released on undertakings.

Two in custody after guns seized

9:09 AM

Winnipeg police say two men are in custody after a Thursday afternoon traffic stop in the Weston neighbourhood.

Officers were patrolling the area around 2 p.m. when they say a male passenger in the backseat of a taxi was leaning outside of its window, not wearing a seatbelt and yelling at a pedestrian at a bus stop.

During a traffic stop, police located a .22 calibre handgun on one man, while an additional passenger had a sawed-off shot gun.

A 36-year-old man, who had two warrants for his arrest, is charged with various firearms offences. A 32-year-old man was also charged with firearms offences and failure to comply with conditions of an undertaking.

Both men were detained.