Woman robbed two teenage women on a North Lakes street telling them to not “be dumb”

The theft was dubbed “as serious as it comes” and she was lucky to not be facing a more serious offence.

A woman robbed two teenagers on a North Lakes street telling them “don’t be dumb” and to give her “everything” they had.

On Sunday, 22 December 2018 a 17-year-old girl and 18-year-old woman were walking along Memorial Dr in North Lakes when a silver car pulled over behind them.

Shevoyne Christina-Lee Roberts, 24, got out of the car and followed the girls before approaching them and asking to borrow one of their phones.

With the phone still in Roberts’s hand she told them to give over everything they were carrying.

“Don’t be dumb, phones shoes, bags. Give me everything you’ve got,” she told them.

One of the victims then used the Find My Phone app to track down where Roberts had gone and police attended the Scarborough house.

On December 24 police executed a search warrant on the house where they found the phone in Roberts’s bedroom.

Shevoyne Christina-Lee Roberts, 24, pleaded guilty to stealing and failing to appear in court.

Her partner told police he had found the phone in the park and planned on handing it in.

The phone had photos of the victim on it and her name listed as the owner on it.

Roberts’s pleaded guilty at Pine Rivers Magistrates Court to stealing and failing to appear at court.

The court heard Roberts had struggled with addiction in the past but had turned her life around in recent months.

She had been in work and she had “had a glimpse of what normal life would look like”.

Magistrate Trevor Morgan told the court Roberts was lucky she had not been charged with the more serious offence of robbery.

“These facts are as serious as it comes for a charge of stealing,” he said.

“The circumstances in which it was done make it serious.”

Roberts was sentenced to 14 months jail and released on parole immediately.