A 32-year-old Winnipeg man is in custody after allegedly breaking into a home in the RM of West St. Paul, Man., while impersonating a police officer.
Officers from the Red River North RCMP detachment were called to a home on Nye Avenue around 2:45 a.m. Friday, where a woman and two children were waiting in a vehicle in the driveway.
The woman told police that she encountered an unknown man in the house wearing police clothing — a jacket with RCMP embroidery and a baseball cap with the word “police” on it — and that the man identified himself as an officer before fleeing the scene.
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Nothing was taken from the home, police said, and no one was injured in the incident.
With the help of police dogs and a drone, Mounties tracked the man down a short time later near the River Trail and arrested him. He now faces charges of breaking and entering and impersonating a peace officer.
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RCMP said the clothing he was wearing wasn’t officially issued by RCMP or any other police agency.
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