A drug bust in Saskatoon led to police recovering $15,000 worth of hockey sticks stolen from a Regina store in 2019.
In September 2019 a robbery at Extreme Hockey in Regina saw a large number of sticks taken along with most of the Under Armour product that was in stock at the time.
The heist happened during a tent sale in the early evening hours on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019.
“They basically cleaned us right out of all the Under Armour product that we had in the store and then lots of sticks too. They found our higher end sticks in there,” Derek Bilboe, who was Extreme Hockey’s general manager in 2019 told CTV News a few days after the robbery occurred.
Nearly six years later on March 8, Saskatoon police said officers conducted “enforcement action into a fentanyl/cocaine trafficking investigation.” Which is when the sticks were found.
The enforcement started when a 40-year-old man, who was found to be in possession of cocaine and bear spray, was arrested around 9 p.m. on the 1500 block of 19th Street West, a Saskatoon police news release says.
According to the release, a residence was then searched around midnight the next day on the 100 block of Fortosky Manor where another man was arrested.
Along with the sticks, Saskatoon police also recovered a stolen motorcycle, a can of bear spray, a machete, four knives, 23 9mm pistol shells, 26 shotgun shells, two grams of methamphetamine, 84 Oxycodone pills, 2.6 grams of hard cocaine, 11.4 grams of powdered cocaine, CAD $1,795 and 26.3 grams of fentanyl.
Saskatoon police said a total of four people are facing 16 charges that includes possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking, possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of a dangerous weapon and possession of the proceeds of crime over $5,000.
-With files from Colton Wiens
