Police investigating suspicious circumstances involving men near Winnipeg schools

Police arrested and released a man without charging him in connection with what they call "suspicious circumstances," in which children were being watched at a St. Vital school this week.

Police arrested and released a man without charging him in connection with what they call "suspicious circumstances," in which children were being watched at a St. Vital school this week.

The man, who police didn't identify, was arrested without incident Friday (May 12) after he returned to Victor H.L. Wyatt school on Meadowood Drive, police said Saturday in a news release.

A day earlier, school officials called police to report that a man between 40 and 50 years old was watching kids over the noon hour. He didn't speak to nor approach anyone but ran away when school staff approached him, police said.

The man was interviewed by officers in the child abuse unit and released without charge pending further investigation, police said. He was on school property and didn't have kids at the school, a police spokesperson said.