Winnipeg police officer faces prison after pleading guilty to multiple charges

Caitlyn Gowriluk · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 07, 2025 11:35 AM EST | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

A seasoned Winnipeg serviceman is expected to service a situation condemnation aft pleading blameworthy to charges including breach of trust, offering indignity to quality remains, theft nether $5,000 and attempting to obstruct justice.

Const. Elston Bostock, who has worked with the Winnipeg Police Service for much than 22 years, was charged aft a lengthy investigation, dubbed Project Fibre, that began successful April 2024. Allegations against Bostock included that helium shared interior constabulary information, interfered with a constabulary country and shared a photograph of a partially bare dormant pistillate that helium took portion connected duty.

The investigation, which discovered offences ranging backmost to 2016, began aft constabulary received "reports from aggregate confidential sources that the accused had been associating with and providing constabulary accusation to non-police actors progressive successful illicit activity," said an agreed connection of facts work to tribunal connected Friday.

While immoderate of those allegations came to airy aboriginal on, others were not discovered until Bostock's idiosyncratic cellphone was analyzed pursuing his arrest.

Bostock, who sat successful the prisoner's container wearing a grey crewneck sweatshirt, looked down astatine the level and astatine times enactment his caput successful his hands arsenic details of the allegations helium was pleading blameworthy to were work out.

"You are pleading blameworthy this greeting to a fig of charges, due to the fact that you admit guilt connected those charges?" Richard Wolson, Bostock's lawyer, asked him during a plea inquiry.

"Yes," Bostock said.

The blameworthy pleas were entered earlier Court of King's Bench Justice Kenneth Champagne successful a Winnipeg courtroom arsenic portion of a woody that volition spot Bostock’s lawyers inquire for thing little than a penitentiary condemnation and provincial Crown attorneys headdress their petition astatine six years.

Bostock inactive faces national cause charges, for which prosecutors are expected to inquire for a consecutive condemnation of a year, tribunal heard.

Letters to defence lawyers

The blameworthy pleas travel aft a missive was sent past period by the Manitoba Prosecution Service to a fig of defence lawyers who had cases wherever Bostock was involved.

"Out of an abundance of caution, you are receiving this missive due to the fact that a condemnation was entered connected the supra charge(s), and Officer Bostock had engagement successful the incident’s file,” reads portion of the letter, a transcript of which was obtained by CBC News.

The letter, signed by Winnipeg proceedings manager Jennifer Mann, went connected to database the charges Bostock was facing astatine the time. 

A announcement to the assemblage from Legal Aid Manitoba dated Oct. 31 past referenced letters "regarding the behaviour of a fig of constabulary officers" who "have been charged with offences regarding breaches of the nationalist spot successful the execution of their duties."

"If you person received 1 of these letters, your work arsenic counsel requires that you bash a summary reappraisal to find whether the behaviour of the serviceman named successful the missive whitethorn person committed misconduct and whether that misconduct would person reasonably resulted successful a miscarriage of justice,” the announcement said.

It added that portion Legal Aid "has not been funded to compensate counsel for this work," if a lawyer "concludes that a miscarriage of justness whitethorn person occurred based upon the facts of the lawsuit [Legal Aid] is of the presumption that this would represent caller grounds and is prepared to money an appeal."