A longtime Winnipeg police officer is dead after being charged with possessing child pornography.
Winnipeg police say 39-year-old Yvan Corriveau was found dead Friday morning and his death is not considered criminal.
Read more: Winnipeg man handed more child porn, sexual exploitation charges as investigation continues
Manitoba RCMP say they received several complaints from the RCMP National Child Exploitation Crime Centre. Officers executed a search warrant at a home in Ile De Chenes Thursday, where Corriveau was arrested on four charges, including possession of child pornography, accessing child pornography, making available child pornography and making written child pornography.
- Kenneth Law to plead guilty after murder charges withdrawn, lawyer says
- Northwest Calgary family seeks answers after motorist crashes into home, drives away
- Toronto man who killed his mother found guilty of 2nd-degree murder
- 2 charged in N.S. human trafficking case, money funnelled through casinos: RCMP
-
![]()
Kenneth Law, Ontario man accused of aiding 14 suicides, to plead guilty in deal with Crown prosecutors -
![]()
6 dead after gunman opens fire on Kyiv street, suspect barricades himself in supermarket -
![]()
Ontario’s evolving explanation for how it accidentally released 150 inmates -
![]()
B.C. program aims to ‘track and trace’ illicit drug supply
He was later released after his arrest on a judge’s order, before being found dead.
Corriveau worked with the Winnipeg Police Service for 15 years. Police say they will provide no further information on his arrest.
Comments
Comments closed.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.
Please see our Commenting Policy for more.