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2/4/2012
The victim of a stabbing that happened in Winnipeg on January 25th has died from his injuries, and the arrested suspects have now been charged with murder.
A 29 year old man and a 29 year old woman were stabbed early on January 25th in the 400 block of Bannerman. The woman is in stable condition, but police say that the man died on Thursday, February 2nd. He's been identified as Ian John Folster.
Three males had already been arrested and charged with attempted murder. Those charges have been upgraded to 2nd degree murder. They are 18 year old Adam Kent Monias, 21 year old Stephan Charles, and a 17 year old boy.
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2/4/2012
Winnipeg police have been busy over the past 24 hours.
Two stabbings are under investigation. The first one saw police attend a hotel in the 700 block of Main Street at about 2 this morning. A 26 year old woman was stabbed in the upper body, she is in stable condition, and the suspect, 37 year old Tamara Traverse, was taken into custody without incident.
This morning's other incident involved an 18 year old woman reportedly getting stabbed in the back in the North End shortly before 6. She's in stable condition.
Meanwhile, last night a gas bar was held up just before 9:30 in the 3500 block of Portage Avenue. The suspect made off with some cash. No one was hurt.
Here's another item... just before 5 yesterday afternoon, a carjacking at St. Vital Shopping Centre. A 27 year old woman had just parked her car and got out when a male suspect, who appeared to be 15 or 16, came up to her with a handgun and made her give up her keys. The car is a white 2008 VW Rabbit, license plate number ERK 959. The woman was not hurt.
Police also made a firearms related arrest yesterday afternoon. ...
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2/4/2012
One person is in critical condition and two more are in hospital as the result of a two-vehicle crash on Henderson Highway.
It happened at about 4:15 this morning. The vehicles involved were a GMC Sierra truck and a Pontiac Sunfire. The occupants of the Sunfire all went to hospital - an adult man, a 17 year old girl, and a 19 year old woman - the man is the one in critical condition.
The driver of the truck was not hurt.
Southbound Henderson had been closed for several hours but was-reopened a couple hours ago. Northbound Henderson was re-opened this past hour.
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2/4/2012
A special weather statement is in effect for Southern Manitoba, including Winnipeg..
A saturated mild air mass and light winds are producing locally reduced visibilities in fog over portions of southern Manitoba. Fog at times could result in visibilities down to Zero..
Jim Slipec of Environment Canada told CJOB the conditions worsen as you travel farther East from the Red River valley region but it's a little patchier than early Friday morning..
He expects some improvement later Saturday morning..
It will be on the mild side in the Winnipeg area Saturday with a forecast high of 1 degree..
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2/4/2012
Winnipeg Police are looking for a male youth after a suspected car-jacking late Friday afternoon outside the Saint Vital Shopping centre..
Police say just before 5pm a lone male, about 15 years old, forced the driver of a vehicle out of the car with what appeared to be a hand gun..
The suspect was described as having a thin build, and about 5 feet nine inches tall. He was wearing a white ski jacket and a dark toque.. There were no injuries..
Police describe the car stolen as a white VW Rabbit with Manitoba License ERK 959..
And, Police are looking for a man after a Gas Bar was held up Friday night just before 9:30 in the 35 hundred block of Portage avenue..The suspect was described as a white male, between 30 and 50 years old, weighing 185 lbs, five feet seven inches tall and wearing a black toque and dark clothing..
Police say the culprit threatened a station employee with a tire iron and escaped with some cash..There were no injuries..
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2/4/2012
Damage was estimated at 80-thousand dollars following a fire Friday night at 7 Saul Miller drive..
Fire crews responded to the home around 8:30 pm.
The fire had started in a kitchen and was deemed accidental.
There were no injuries..
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2/3/2012
Power was out for less than an hour Friday night for about 72 hundred Manitoba Hydro customers in West Kildonan and parts of East Kildonan..
Hydro spokesperson Anita Mitchell says the cause was a pole top fire around 7:30pm..
She says this problem is typical in high humid conditions when moisture can get into hairline cracks of insulators and cause sparks and arcing resulting in the fire and the subsequent outage..
She says crews were able to restore power just after 8 pm..
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2/3/2012
13 people have been arrested and over 1 million dollars in drugs seized after a major operation was executed Friday by the Manitoba Organized Crime Task Force. The operation - called Project Deplete was conducted by Winnipeg Police, Brandon Police and RCMP. The 13 people are from Manitoba and Alberta. All have been charged with possession proceeds of crime and drug trafficking. Drugs seized included cocaine, MDMA and ecstasy. All arrested will appear in court on Monday.
(Photos courtesy of the Winnipeg Police Service)
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2/3/2012
Manitoba's Trade Minister is encouraged by the latest unemployment figures. Unemployment in Manitoba held steady at 5.4 percent last month while the national rate increased. Peter Bjornson says Manitoba has the 3rd lowest unemployment rate in the country. He says strong gains in the private sector over the past year are particularly encouraging. Stats Canada figures show the private sector has seen a jump of 91-hundred jobs year over year, a growth rate of two percent.
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2/3/2012
CJOB has obtained the following audio exhibit played before the jury at the second degree murder trial of Mark Stobbe.
The following is the full phone conversation between Betty Rowbotham and Mark Stobbe after Betty Rowbotham was told by police they believed her sister Beverly Rowbotham was killed in her own backyard in October of 2000.
Stobbe was Beverly Rowbotham's husband and is on trial for her murder.
The Crown has alleged in court he killed her with a hatchet before driving her body to Selkirk and biking home.
Stobbe has always maintained his innocence. He told investigators he had fallen asleep when his wife was out shopping and called police when he woke up in the middle of the night and she wasn't home.
The trial is scheduled to run until the end of March.
Warning: (The conversation does contain some use of profanity.)
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