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Alberta basketball club’s trailer of sports wheelchairs stolen in Stony Plain

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Alberta wheelchair basketball program has chairs and trailer stolen
Hundreds of kids in central and northern Alberta are now unable to play wheelchair basketball after thieves stole a trailer containing their equipment. As Jasmine King reports, the organization running the program is now trying to come up with alternatives – Nov 26, 2025

Mounties say they are searching for a stolen trailer holding 15 sport wheelchairs owned by an Edmonton-area wheelchair basketball club.

The Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball Society says its trailer was stolen from the Memorial Composite High School parking lot in Stony Plain on Saturday morning.

Stony Plain RCMP are searching for a stolen trailer holding 15 sport wheelchairs owned by the Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball Society.
Stony Plain RCMP are searching for a stolen trailer holding 15 sport wheelchairs owned by the Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball Society. RCMP

Ross Norton, the club’s program manager, says it helps Edmonton wheelchair basketball teams travel and compete, mainly across Western Canada.

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He says it also provides wheelchairs to schools in Edmonton, and across northern and central Alberta.

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Norton estimates the loss of the wheelchairs at about $15,000.

He adds that given the stolen wheelchairs were older models, the cost for new replacements would be between $75,000 and $105,000.

The basketball club says the trailer’s front is aluminum checkerboard plating and has its logo on both sides with a licence plate that reads 5UC 293.

Watch the video at the top of this story for more information.

Stony Plain RCMP are searching for a stolen trailer holding 15 sport wheelchairs owned by the Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball Society. RCMP

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