Three adolescents are facing drug, firearms, and assault charges after police found them fleeing in a taxi.

On Monday morning at 4:25 a.m. a woman called 911 saying she had been assaulted in her 200 block of Doncaster Boulevard home. She told officers the three assaulters had firearms and fled in a taxi.

Nearby officers found the taxi and the three suspects inside of it. 

When bringing them into custody, officers found:

  • a loaded Ruger rifle and ammunition
  • a loaded sawed-off shotgun and ammunition
  • hunting knife
  • handcuffs
  • dime bags of cocaine and Xanax pills 

Aged 15, 17, and 18, the trio from Winnipeg are all facing numerous assault, firearms, and drug-related offences.