Jessica Fallon, Jyle Deem, Lukas Cahill charged with kidnapping: Lismore court
A trio who police say have links to the Loyal Crims gang are facing a raft of charges - including that they robbed a person and terrorised them with a tomahawk.
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Three people charged with kidnapping and assaulting a person in Byron Bay before stealing bank cards, cash and clothing from them will remain in custody.
Jessica Honey Fallon, 27, Jyle Charles Deem, 29 and Lukas Mark Cahill, 32, pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery causing grievous bodily harm and kidnap in company with intent to occasion actual bodily harm.
They were mentioned in Lismore District Court on Wednesday, September 29.
According to court documents, the group robbed a person of two bank cards, clothing, a Samsung galaxy mobile and $1300 in cash between 9.30pm and 10.30pm on August 25 last year.
They were armed with a tomahawk, which was used to wound their victim, police facts state.
Police allege the trio are part of a criminal gang called the Loyal Crims.
Fallon, from the Sydney suburb of Miller, pleaded guilty to a further charge of stealing a vehicle, but is yet to enter a plea for a count of driving conveyance without the consent of the owner.
Police allege she stole a Toyota Prado from Skinners Shoot on August 31, 2021, between 1.45pm and 3.15pm before taking a Ford Ranger sometime after 8pm the same day from Lennox Head.
Cahill, from Tweed Heads, has pleaded guilty to a further charge of threatening injury to a person.
It is alleged he was in a crash due to negligent driving on Brunswick Valley Way at Ocean Shores where he allegedly failed to give his particulars to another person shortly after 10am on September 17, 2021.
It’s further alleged the same day he took a Mazda BT-50 from Ocean Shores and drove it without permission from the owner.
The same day police allege Cahill was in a police pursuit in the Mazda at North Tumbulgum, between 11.09am and 11.11am on Tweed Valley Way.
It’s further alleged Cahill stole a leather wallet from the car’s owner worth $50 and did deal with $2200 in cash, reckless to where it was proceeds of crime.
Banora Point man Deem faces further charges of stealing a motor vehicle, driving while disqualified, take and drive conveyance without consent of the owner. He is yet to enter a plea to the charges.
Police allege Deem took and drove a Mazda 2 from Kingscliff between August 17 and August 31, additionally allegedly took a Volkswagen Transporter between 2.30am and 3.30am on August 31, and drove while disqualified on Gollan Drive in Tweed Heads West.
The trio had previously had their bail refused, and Judge Jeffery McLennan ordered that Deem and Fallon and Cahill were to remain in custody on remand.
The three are listed for mention on November 23 in front of Judge Hunt at Lismore District Court.
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