Three migrants arrested in southern Manitoba on Tuesday: RCMP

Three migrants who illegally crossed the international border into Manitoba earlier this week have been turned over to the Canada Border Services Agency, the RCMP say.

Federal RCMP officer’s from the force’s border team were called to Provincial Trunk Highway 201 near Neuenberg at about 8 a.m. on Tuesday, after a member of the public spotted two possible migrants walking along the road.

Mounties later found the migrants at a local hospital and confirmed they had walked into Manitoba from the United States. After the individuals were treated for minor, cold-related injuries, RCMP officers arrested them and turned them over to the CBSA.

While the officers were at the hospital, at about 9:40 a.m., the RCMP border team were advised about another possible migrant who had stopped at a business in Rosengart, looking for a ride to Winnipeg.

Officers on the the ground and in the RCMP’s Black Hawk helicopter, which was already flying in the area, soon found the individual hiding in a parked vehicle. The migrant was turned over to CBSA.

At about noon on Tuesday, RCMP dispatchers were called about a suspicious individual loitering outside a school in the Rhineland area and Mounties arrested the person for human smuggling, but the individual was later released without charges.