A 37-year-old Estevan man is facing a total of 15 charges in Regina after a Regina Police Service investigation into a recent robbery.
The Regina Police Service said in a news release that just minutes after midnight on Wednesday, officers were dispatched to a business located in the 700-block of Victoria Avenue when a caller indicated she had spotted a car stolen from her three days earlier in a robbery.
The complainant also said the suspect may have access to a firearm in the vehicle.
Several police units went to the location and were able to find the suspect inside the business. He was arrested without incident.
A search of the stolen vehicle yielded two firearms (one a sawed-off shotgun), ammunition, two bags of substances later confirmed to be cocaine and fentanyl, five cellphones and cash.
Officers learned that the suspect was on several court-ordered conditions, among them a firearms prohibition. Further investigation led to numerous charges.
Thirty-seven year-old Gregory Bruce Powell is charged with careless use of a firearm, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, unauthorized possession of a prohibited weapon in a motor vehicle, possession of a prohibited firearm with ammunition, breach of an undertaking, possession of a firearm, knowing its possession is unauthorized, tampering with a serial number on a firearm, armed robbery using a prohibited firearm, possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, and three counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to an order, all under the criminal code.
He is also charged with two counts of possession of a scheduled substance, one for cocaine and one for fentanyl, and possession of a scheduled substance for the purpose of trafficking.
Powell made his first court appearance on these charges in Regina Provincial Court on Wednesday.
He is presumed innocent.
