Saskatoon police are seeking tips from the public after a complainant found GPS trackers on their vehicle.
Forty-six-year-old Marty Schira faces multiple charges in connection with the investigation, which began in early September when someone showed up at the police station after finding two trackers on his vehicle.
Police later identified Schira as a suspect and executed a search warrant at an apartment in the 2000 block of 20th Street West, where officers located several more GPS trackers and arrested the 46-year-old.
He has been charged with harassment, mischief, intimidation, and fraudulent concealment.
Investigators believe there may be trackers on other vehicles. They’re asking the public to contact police if they locate one.
Police say the trackers are typically wrapped in black tape and placed inside the fender of the vehicle.
If you discover a GPS tracker on your vehicle, investigators advise not to remove or alter the device. Instead, drive to the police station with that vehicle and tracker intact to file a report.
The name and age of the suspect matches that of a man convicted of sexual assault and kidnapping in 2004 for abducting a woman from Rosetown, Sask. and tying her up in his Calgary apartment.
In June 2003, Marty Glenn Schira forced a woman into the back of his truck at gunpoint in Rosetown.
He stopped multiple times on route to Calgary to rape the woman before tying her up in his apartment. She managed to free her bonds and escape the apartment when he took a break to bathe.
According to the court record, she heard him getting out of the bathtub as she struggled to unlock the front door, finally opening the latch and running downstairs onto Bow Trail where she flagged down a vehicle.
CTV News asked Saskatoon police if the suspect is the same Schira involved in the 2003 kidnapping.
Spokesperson Kelsie Fraser could not confirm if it is the same man, but said Schira is someone “known to police in Saskatchewan.”
