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Man facing charges after bogus distress call on Lake Winnipeg
CJOB News Team reporting
8/1/2012

A 36 year old man from the Matlock area is in police custody and facing a number of charges after sending out an unwarranted distress call from his boat on Lake Winnipeg last night.

Gimli RCMP say the man reported that a boat had capsized with as many as 16 people on board.  Emergency crews were dispatched and a Coast Guard vessel eventually found the boat.

However, it wasn't capsized and only had one person on board - a man believed to be drunk.


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