{"id":172991,"date":"2026-08-18T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/172991\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:57:07","slug":"winnipeg-man-arrested-in-machete-threat-at-ev-charging-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/172991\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Man Arrested in Machete Threat at EV Charging Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"et_pb_title_meta_container\">August 18, 2026 1:28 PM | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103886\" class=\" wp-image-103886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/electric-charging.jpg\" alt=\"Electric Charging\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-103886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An electric vehicle is shown attached to a charging station on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in Montpelier, Vt. (THE CANADIAN PRESS\/AP-Toby Talbot)<\/p>\n<p>A 46-year-old Winnipeg man has been arrested after an alleged confrontation involving a machete at an electric vehicle charging station in Prawda.<\/p>\n<p>Falcon Beach RCMP received a report around 3 p.m. on August 14 about an assault outside a business at the charging station on Highway 1.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a man driving an SUV and pulling a travel trailer had parked in front of the charging stations, blocking access for other motorists.<\/p>\n<p>A 43-year-old Winnipeg man approached the driver, who allegedly threatened him before throwing a coffee cup and water bottle at him and producing a machete.<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders then approached the suspect, who fled the scene in his vehicle. The victim wasn\u2019t injured.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 4 p.m., Ontario Provincial Police in Kenora located the suspect vehicle and arrested the driver. He was later turned over to Manitoba RCMP and returned to the province.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been released on conditions and faces charges of assault with a weapon and uttering threats.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Want to see more of our stories on Google?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 18, 2026 1:28 PM | News An electric vehicle is shown attached to a charging station on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[47,1881,240,94,84],"class_list":["post-172991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-crime","tag-green","tag-manitoba","tag-ontario","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}