{"id":77633,"date":"2026-06-06T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/77633\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:31:13","slug":"manitoba-man-36-charged-with-luring-ohio-child-on-snapchat-winnipeg-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/77633\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba man, 36, charged with luring Ohio child on Snapchat: Winnipeg police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 36-year-old Headingley man who police say was communicating with an Ohio child on Snapchat is facing several charges, including possession of child sexual abuse material and luring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Internet child-exploitation unit officials started investigating last month after the U.S.-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children told Winnipeg police that a local man was communicating online with a child in Ohio, police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators found the man had engaged in ongoing conversations with a child, the release says. A police spokesperson told CBC News the man used Snapchat to communicate with the child in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A warrant was obtained to search his Headingley home, the release says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Internet child-exploitation unit investigators and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/winnipeg-police-electronic-storage-device-detection-dog-9.7028402\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:electronics-detection dog;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;electronics-detection dog&quot;}\" class=\"link \">electronics-detection dog<\/a> seized multiple electronic devices during a search on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man has been charged with possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material; making, printing, publishing or possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material for the purpose of publication; three counts of transmitting, making available, distributing or selling sexually explicit material to a person under 18 years old; and two counts of luring a person under 18 years-old via telecommunication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police says he has been released on an undertaking, which includes protective conditions for children under 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old Headingley man who police say was communicating with an Ohio child on Snapchat is facing several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15346,30893,30894,30892,20809,30891,84,9891],"class_list":["post-77633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-child-sexual-abuse","tag-exploitation","tag-headingley","tag-national-center-for-missing-and-exploited-children","tag-police-spokesperson","tag-snapchat","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77633","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=77633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}