Officers seize 22 guns during investigation into stolen lumber

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said officers seized cash, drugs, including fentanyl, and 22 firearms after executing a search warrant during an investigation into stolen building supplies. Three of those guns were stolen.

On Wednesday, investigators were looking into a stolen flatbed truck from a southwest Charlotte lumberyard that carried lumber. They tracked the truck, which had a GPS device, 25 miles away to a home in Mint Hill.

Officers served a search warrant and recovered the stolen goods which were worth about $15,000.

They detained Rashaad Sinclair, 34, and charged him with larceny of a motor vehicle, possession of stolen firearms, and drug possession/drug trafficking.

‘In the wrong hands’

A victim told Channel 9′s veteran crime reporter Glenn Counts on Thursday that several of his firearms were stolen a couple of years ago.

“It definitely sounds like those guns were in the wrong hands and that’s disappointing,” he said.

They were stolen when he lived in another part of the state

“Well, it just shows the issue that we have with how stolen guns can travel and get into the wrong hands,” he said.

The victim never thought he would see his firearms again and hoped they weren’t used in a crime.

“I’m very relieved,” he said. “I didn’t purchase the gun for it to be involved in a crime, so to know that it can be back to me safe where it should be and not in the wrong hands, is awesome.”

The guns were high quality and included pistols and rifles, and one of them had a suppresser attached, according to a police report.

Sinclair is not allowed to have firearms, because of a previous drug conviction.

He’s in jail under a $10,000 bond.

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