Winnipeg road rage incident leads to $200,000 in meth, Ruger rifle

WINNIPEG – A complaint about a man in a red truck pointing a firearm led to multiple drug and weapons charges against two Alberta men.

Several Winnipeg police units went to Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday following a complaint about two men in a red truck.

They searched the area near Archibald Street and Provencher Boulevard, where the incident reportedly happened, and spotted a red truck at Archibald and Marion Street.

Police searched the truck and seized:

• A Ruger SR .22-calibre semi-automatic long-barrel rifle and ammunition, including a loaded magazine
• 2,161 grams of methamphetamine, which police estimate is worth $200,000 on the street
• More than half a kilogram of powder cocaine worth an estimated $52,000
• 46 grams of crack cocaine worth an estimated $3,000
• 28 grams of powder methylamphetamine (Ecstasy) worth an estimated $1,000
• 46 Ecstasy pills worth an estimate $460.

Jaden Joshua Omeasoo, 18, of Hobbema, Alta., and Benjamin James White, 25, of Lloydminster, Alta., face numerous drug- and weapons-related offences.