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Charleswood sexual assault suspect arrested, charged

Photo of a Winnipeg Police Service shoulder badge on an officer.
Photo of a Winnipeg Police Service shoulder badge on an officer. THE CANADIAN PRESS / John Woods

Winnipeg police have made an arrest after a woman was sexually assaulted in Charleswood last weekend.

The victim was jogging on Charleswood Road near West Park Place late Sunday morning, police said, when a man approached her from behind and touched her inappropriately.

She wasn’t physically injured in the incident, and the suspect ran away through a nearby school parking lot.

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Police arrested a suspect, 23, at a Westdale-area home Wednesday. He was turned over to sex crimes investigators and charged with sexual assault.

The accused was released on an undertaking.

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