22-year-old arrested after police find shotgun in taxi

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Winnipeg police found a sawed-off shotgun in a taxi parked on Furby Street on Saturday morning.

Officers were in the in the 500 block of Furby Street at about 6:15 a.m. Jan. 11 when they interviewed a man sitting in a taxi as part of a separate investigation. They found the man wasn’t involved in the incident at hand, but did have a 12-gauge round of ammunition on him in addition to the shotgun with an obliterated serial number, the Winnipeg Police Service stated in a news release Sunday.

A 22-year-old man was arrested and faces charges related to unauthorized possession of a firearm and ammunition. He was released on a promise to appear in court and his name hasn’t been publicly released by police.