11/29/2025
🧾 UPDATE 🧾
Elston Bostock
Elston pleaded guilty to getting traffic tickets voided in exchange for liquor and gift cards.
Stealing cannabis from a police scene.
Sharing confidential police information and sending lewd texts about a photo he took of the nearly naked body of a woman who had fatally overdosed.
Elston also admitted to looking up and sharing confidential police information, including people's vehicle registration details and addresses, with people outside the police force from October 2022 to 2024.
A date hasn't yet been picked for sentencing
💥 Winnipeg, Manitoba💥
⚠️2 Winnipeg cops facing charges ⚠️
Elston bostock 48
Vernon Strutinsky 44
Elston faces 18 charges in connection with a string of incidents.
Elston charged with a range of offences, including drug trafficking charges related to co***ne, amphetamine, psilocybin, M**A, oxycodone, tramadol, and illicit cannabis.
He also faces a charge of indignity to human remains, knowingly distributing an intimate image, breaking and entering to commit extortion, theft, six counts of breach of trust, and three counts of obstruction of justice.
Police said the charges relate to actions allegedly taken by Elston while he was both on-duty and off.
Elston also accused of stealing ammunition from firearm training events, attempting to get traffic tickets voided, and leaking confidential information from police databases.
Elston also allegedly took an intimate photo of a dead woman with his cell phone, while investigating a sudden death, and distributed that photo electronically.
Vernon was partnered with Elston when they entered a residence without authorization to evict tenants, allegedly threatening tenants with arrest if they didn’t comply.
Vernons charged with breaking and entering to commit extortion and breach of trust.
Vernon is released on bail & Elston is in custody
Case is on going