(CITY OF WINNIPEG / FILE)
A Winnipeg Transit supervisor was threatened with an improvised torch on Friday after waking up a sleeping passenger.
Police were called to the area of Fort Street and Graham Avenue just before 8 a.m. for the incident.
The supervisor reported that when the bus stopped, he boarded the bus in response to a man who had been sleeping on the bus for several hours. Once awake, the passenger exited the bus but then created a torch using a can of hairspray and a lighter. He aimed the weapon at the supervisor, who managed to push him to the ground and disarm him.
The supervisor wasn’t injured and officers took the man into custody.
Andrew Lawton Horzempa, 23, of Winnipeg, has been charged with assault with a weapon and detained in custody.
