A Winnipeg police vehicle is photographed at a scene in Winnipeg, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Lipnowski)
Winnipeg police and Manitoba RCMP say thanks to a joint investigation, they found a wanted man at a local business with guns, cash and drugs.
Police said the Central Community Support Unit (CSU), with the assistance of the Manitoba Integrated Violent Offender Apprehension Unit (MIVOAU), started to track down 38-year-old Stephen Wilfred Jade Wood, who was wanted for violating his parole.
Officers found him and another man at a business in the 1000 block of Main Street, said police, where they were arrested.
When police searched Wood, they found a loaded handgun, ammunition, a rifle, bear mace, fentanyl, meth, cocaine, crack cocaine and MDMA worth about $76,000 total. They also found about $20,000 cash.
The other man had a loaded handgun, fentanyl, and two cell phones.
Wood was charged with numerous drug and weapons crimes, for having stolen property, and for violating his parole, said police.
The other man, Rommel Celfo Jimenez, 50 has been charged with several weapons crimes and failing to comply with an undertaking.
Both men are in custody.
MIVOAU is a joint task force comprised of WPS and Manitoba RCMP members. It aims to identify, locate and apprehend violent offenders with outstanding warrants, said police.
