Regina man charged for possessing stolen recycling

A 39-year-old Regina man has been charged in connection with the case of stolen bottles collected by a Regina ringette team as part of a fundraising effort.

According to a media release from the Regina Police Service on Thursday, the trailer containing the bottles as well as a generator was stolen from the 1700 block of MacRae Drive on Nov. 27. The next day, a man took the bottles to a recycling depot.

Police were told the man was driving a white pickup truck, which officers found at a home early on Dec. 6. After determining the truck had been stolen in Fort Qu’Appelle, officers arrested the man in the house.

They got a search warrant for the house and found the generator that had been in the trailer.

The man also was a suspect in the possession of a stolen vehicle that had been taken from a business in the 1500 block of McAra Street on Oct. 11. That vehicle was found Oct. 13 in the 1800 block of Wallace Street.

The man faces two charges each of possession of stolen property over $5,000 (the vehicles) and possession of stolen property under $5,000 (the generator and the bottles).

He appeared in court on the first two charges on Friday, but was rearrested over the weekend on the second two charges. He was in court to face those charges Monday.

The U10 Regina Raptors were planning to put the proceeds of the bottle drive partly toward team fees and partly toward cancer research via an Edmonton tournament in January.

Late last week, a Regina businessman made a donation to the Raptors to help with their fundraising.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an amended version of the story, with a revised wording.