Seven Support Units on One Door in the Bronx, Nine People Out of the House and an SKS Rifle in the Evidence List: Winnipeg’s East District Lays Twenty Charges Off a Harbison Avenue West Warrant (Originally Reported September 2, 2026)

WINNIPEG — This file was published on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 9:36 a.m. under file number C26-217216 and is not a story that broke today. One search warrant went into one house in the 100 block of Harbison Avenue West on Monday, August 31, and nine people came out of it. Eight Winnipeg Police units were on the operation, and two long guns went into the evidence list — a pump-action shotgun and an SKS semi-automatic rifle.

Twenty-six ounces of methamphetamine at an estimated $9,100 is not, by itself, a large seizure. The scale of this file is in the resourcing and the headcount, not the drug weight.

Eight Units for One House

The unit list is longer than the seizure list, and that inversion is the most striking thing about this release. A district Community Support Unit led it. Behind that unit came tactical officers, a dog, a drone, crisis negotiators, a rapid response team, a major incident response team, and a second district’s support unit.

Crisis negotiators and a Major Incident Response Team are not standard accompaniment on a drug warrant. Their presence indicates the Winnipeg Police Service anticipated either a barricade or a large number of occupants, and nine people in one residence suggests the second. The force does not describe the entry, does not say whether anyone refused to come out, and does not report any injury.

No warrant is executed with a drone and a negotiation team on a whim. What the composition establishes is a pre-assessed risk level; what it does not establish is anything about who the occupants were or what they were connected to.

Twenty Charges and Four Named Outcomes

Nine arrests produced twenty charges, and the Winnipeg Police Service accounts for four of the nine people.

Two men — aged 33 and 40, neither named — carry the substantive charges: firearms, drugs and property. Both were released on undertakings. The two people who were held are the two women named in the release, and neither was held on the substantive file. Rojik was detained on an outstanding failure-to-attend warrant. Leblanc was detained on a public mischief charge and three outstanding warrants.

That is the shape of the outcome, and it is worth stating plainly: on a file that produced a shotgun and a semi-automatic rifle, the two men facing the firearms charges walked out on undertakings, and the two people held in custody were held on unrelated warrants. The force offers no comment on the release decisions, and this briefing draws no conclusion from them beyond recording what happened.

The remaining five arrests are not accounted for in the release at all — no names, no ages, no charges, no dispositions.

An SKS in the Evidence List

The SKS is a Soviet-designed semi-automatic rifle, and it is the item in this inventory most likely to draw a reader’s eye. The Winnipeg Police Service does not say whether it was loaded, whether it had been modified, or how it was classified — and none of those facts appears anywhere in the release.

Nor does the force say whether either of the two men charged was already subject to a court order barring him from possessing firearms. That is the distinction that would sharpen this file considerably, and it is not on the public record.

The Norco bicycle in the seizure list accounts for the property component of the charges against the two men, on the ordinary reading that it was identified as stolen. The release does not spell that out.

No criminal organization has been named by the Winnipeg Police Service in this file, and none is named in this briefing.