More charges for Saskatoon man accused of hiding trackers on vehicles

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A Saskatoon man arrested in January after someone discovered two GPS tracking devices under their truck bumper is now facing more than 100 charges against 24 complainants.

New charges presented in Saskatoon provincial court this week against Marty Glenn Schira allege he’d been secretly following seven people between August 2020 and last month.

Since his initial batch of 36 charges were laid, Schira is now charged with an additional 66 charges: 15 counts each of harassment and intimidation, and 12 counts each of mischief by interfering with property (vehicles), unauthorized use of a computer system, and fraudulently concealing a computer system.

Schira, 47, is accused of hiding a tracking device to follow, harass and intimidate a couple between August 2020 and Feb. 4, another man between August 2020 and Feb. 7, and four separate people between April 2021 and March 13, July 2024 and March 21, March 2021 and Feb. 27, and December 2021 and March 13.

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Another batch of 34 charges against eight people allege he’d been placing devices on vehicles as recently as late 2024.

They involve allegedly tracking a woman between September 2024 and Jan. 31, a couple between February 2024 and Feb. 5, and a man between February 2021 and Jan. 24.

Between August 2020 and April 2021, he’s accused of the same harassment against a couple and against two men: one between August 2023 and Feb. 6, the other between October 2021 and Feb. 5.

Schira was previously charged with nine counts each of harassment and intimidation, and six counts each of mischief, unauthorized use of a computer system, and fraudulently concealing a computer system.

Court information showed the initial batch of allegations involved nine complainants between October 2020 and his arrest in January.

He’s been in custody ever since.

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In 2003, when Schira was 25 years old, he abducted a 21-year-old woman who was out for a walk in Rosetown at gunpoint, tied her up in the back of his truck and stopped to rape her multiple times while driving to his apartment in Calgary, where he confined and assaulted her until she escaped.

He was sentenced in 2004 to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to using a firearm to confine and kidnap, and sexual assault with a weapon. The sentence was reduced to 13 years on appeal.

Court heard that leading up to the abduction, Schira was having paranoid delusions about being stalked by a private investigator who was breaking into his apartment.

He was denied statutory release in 2012 and 2013 after the parole board deemed him “too dangerous.”

Schira’s next scheduled court date is May 6.

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