Tendercuts owner facing weapons charges
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The owner of a Brandon butcher shop was set to be released from custody on Wednesday after he was arrested the previous day for weapons offences.
Andrew Wrightson, owner Tendercuts Meats & Deli, is charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and careless storage of a firearm. He appeared in Brandon provincial court via video from jail on Wednesday.
Court records indicate that Wrightson was arrested on Tuesday.
The Crown consented to Wrightson’s release on a $1,500 promise to pay and a $500 named surety — someone who agrees to supervise an accused and promises to give a certain amount of money if the accused doesn’t follow their bail conditions.
Wrightson will also have to follow several conditions, including that he does not possess any weapons, other than for his employment as a butcher, that he abide by a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and that he does not enter Souris.
Wrightson recently took ownership of Tendercuts on 18th Street in Brandon and Prairie Rose Meats in Souris.
Wrightson began working at Prairie Rose in 2016 and took over both businesses in October from former owner Marc Bellon.
Both operations work as a team, with Prairie Rose having handled the slaughtering, cutting, curing and sausage making for the last 27 years and Tendercuts serving as a retail outlet for the last 23 years.
As of Wednesday, a Google search showed Tendercuts as “temporarily closed.”
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