Officers seize 22 guns during investigation into stolen lumber WSOC TV [Video]

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 …