Three charity boxes and £3,000 worth of IT equipment were stolen from the Moray Sports Centre.
A 30-year-old man has been charged in connection with a theft at Moray Sports Centre.
Three charity boxes and £3,000 worth of IT equipment was taken from the facility in Elgin on September 25.
A personal laptop, Apple Mac, two mobile phones, a camera and two touchscreen devices were among the items taken.
Charity boxes for MacMillan Cancer, Abbie’s Sparkle Foundation and the Moray Sports Foundation – which operates the centre on Linkwood Road – were also stolen with around £250 inside in total.
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Police have now charged a man in connection with the break-in.
A spokesman said: “A 30-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with a break-in and theft from a premises on Linkwood Road, Elgin, which occurred around 12.20pm on Sunday, 25 September.
“He has been reported to the procurator fiscal.”
Three charity boxes and £3,000 worth of IT equipment were stolen from the Moray Sports Centre.
Back in September, Moray Sports Centre chief executive Iain Stokes spoke of the “chilling” CCTV footage which captured the offence.
He described it as “disgusting” for someone to take charity boxes, and said that they would be doubling their security as a result of the incident.
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Man charged after three charity boxes and £3,000 worth of IT equipment stolen from Moray Sports Centre
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