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Break-in suspect fakes medical issue, assaults officer: Winnipeg police

A Winnipeg Police Service cruiser. Randall Paull / Global News

Police in Winnipeg say a suspect they arrested after a residential break-in feigned a medical event while in a cruiser, and then allegedly assaulted one of the officers who’d removed him from the vehicle to help him.

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The officer was uninjured as a result of the assault, which police allege happened Friday evening.

Police say the suspect had another man’s i-d, and gave officers the name that was on the document.

But they say they were able to determine the 35-year-old’s real identity through his fingerprints, and they say he remains in custody and faces numerous charges.

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