Two charged in carjacking, home invasions

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TWO Winnipeg men have been arrested and charged in connection with a Monday afternoon carjacking and a number of home invasions and robberies.

At 3:25 p.m. Monday, a 53-year-old man reported he and his teenage daughter had been held at gunpoint while returning to their vehicle near the intersection of Despins and Jeanne d’Arc streets, south of the St. Boniface Cathedral.

The pair’s stolen vehicle was used by two male suspects to travel to the 400 block of Maryland Street, where they broke into two suites in a residential building and robbed three men at gunpoint, according to Winnipeg police.

“As the suspects fled the area, the stolen vehicle passed a cruiser car and subsequently accelerated at a high rate of speed in an attempt to elude police. The vehicle was abandoned in a nearby back lane, and two suspects were taken into custody after a foot pursuit,” according to a news release issued Tuesday.

Dylan Richard Simon Ross, 24, and Eugene Bradly Shane Beaulieu, 21, were both charged with five counts of armed robbery, two counts of breaking and entering, one count of disguise with intent, pointing a firearm and a number of other offences.

Ross faces a charge for flight while pursued by a peace officer; while Beaulieu was charged with failing to comply with conditions of an undertaking.