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Illegal tracking

Saskatoon man charged after GPS trackers found on vehicle

Jan 29, 2025 | 12:37 PM

Saskatoon Police are looking for public assistance after they arrested a 46-year-old man in connection with the discovery of two tracking devices on a vehicle.

Marty Glen Schira is charged with harassment, mischief, intimidation and fraudulent concealment.

SPS officers were approached by a citizen who had found two GPS trackers on his vehicle on September 6, 2024.

The investigation took officers to the 2000 Block of 20th Street West in Saskatoon where more trackers were found.

Altogether, six trackers have been recovered and SPS believes there are more outstanding. The public is asked to contact the SPS or their local police if they find a tracker on their vehicle.

They are typically wrapped in black tape put inside the fender of the vehicle. People that do find one should not try to remove it, instead go to the police station with the vehicle and tracker and file a report.

Court records show that a man named Marty Glen Schira was convicted of kidnapping and raping a 22 year old Rosetown woman in 2003.

Schira, who grew up in Spiritwood and Prince Albert, kidnapped the woman at gunpoint in Rosetown, forced her into his vehicle and assaulted her multiple times while taking her to his apartment in Calgary.

She escaped the next day while Schira was taking a shower and ran out into a street where a passing motorist picked her up and took her to the police.

He was convicted in Alberta Provincial Court the following year and found fit to stand trial although testimony from a forensic psychiatrist showed he believed he was being harassed himself.

Schira thought a private investigator was following him and poisoning his food and his clothing.

According to the psychiatrist, Schira believed that if he had sex with his kidnap victim and was not caught, he would have the confidence to overcome his perceived persecution.

Before the Rosetown kidnapping, he had no known history of sexually inappropriate behaviour or violence.

Testimony at his sentencing hearing in Calgary showed that the kidnapping and rape of the woman was not connected to his mental health symptoms and that he knew they were legally and morally wrong.

Schira said his motive was sexual arousal and denied any acute psychotic symptoms before or during his offence.

He was sentenced in late 2004 to a global sentence of 13 years.

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