Mickleham woman Sara Hamie charged with Thomastown aggravated burglary

An ex-airport worker has been linked to a Thomastown home invasion where a victim’s phone was snatched while she called triple-0.

Sara Hamie has fronted court on criminal charges. Picture: Facebook

A former Melbourne Airport staffer has admitted her role in a bungled drug run-through in Melbourne’s northwest.

Sara Hamie, 24, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday to charges including aggravated burglary.

The court heard Hamie’s co-accused Majok Majok, Zacharia Muterampundu and another man stormed a Thomastown home just before 4am on January 5.

It’s alleged Hamie, of Mickleham, “arranged” for Majok to raid a nearby home looking for drugs.

However, despite detailed instructions and directions, the goon crew still managed to storm the wrong home.

Majok and co allegedly smashed their way into The Boulevard home where an unknown assailant cut themself on glass.

The hapless victims heard smashing glass before being confronted by Majok and the others.

A male victim was ordered to sit down.

Majok, armed with a knife, demanded the victims hand over drugs.

“Where are the drugs,” Majok allegedly asked.

“What’s your name, are you Pepe?”

The victims, who said they weren’t ‘Pepe’, told their assailants they had the wrong house.

Majok apologised, telling the victims he had the “wrong address”.

Majok and the other men fled the home with a victim’s phone.

Echo Taskforce detectives arrested Hamie and Majok later that day.

Police seized multiple phones, a CCTV hard-drive and bloodstained Adidas shorts.

Majok had a cut on his hand, the court heard.

Phone analysis revealed Hamie had been in contact with Majok before and after the alleged home invasion.

The court heard the pair swapped messages and calls as Majok had real trouble figuring which house was the crew’s intended target.

Hamie messaged and called Majok with details about the home.

“I’m going to send you a photo of the house,” Hamie said.

The court heard Hamie sent a photo of another house near the house that was broken into.

“Jump the fence and go through the garage, that’s where all the stuff is … he’s not home that’s better for you …,” Hamie said.

“He doesn’t take everything with him, he takes a little bit and comes back for more.

“If you can’t find anything just wait for him to come back because that means he just picked up.”

“Will the guy snitch because I have bare hands,” Majok said.

“Nah he won’t snitch … but to be on the safe side, wipe,” Hamie said.

The prosecution submitted the communication indicated Hamie was “arranging” Majok to go on an “apparent drug run through at (a Thomastown house)”.

Police suspected a man named ‘Pepe’ was the intended target.

Investigations revealed a man with a similar name to ‘Pepe’ under investigation for drug trafficking lived near the victims’ home.

The court a heard that man was charged with drug trafficking after police raided his home hours after the home invasion.

A victim told the court she called triple-0 after Majok and goons stormed her home.

“Please, someone’s in my house, please come,” she said.

The victim said she attempted to give the triple-0 operator her address even after her phone was snatched from her hands.

“I yelled into the phone with what the address was in hopes that they would hear and understand that and that’s when my phone was taken and the call was ended,” she said.

“I was able to tell them (triple 0) the city where I was located, so Thomastown, but not the street address.”

The court heard, at an earlier hearing, Hamie worked at Melbourne airport but lost her job due to the pandemic.

Majok, 20, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges including home invasion, intentionally cause injury and assaulting police.

Muterampundu, 22, who pleaded not guilty to home invasion, will face court at a later date.

Hamie and Majok will front a County Court plea hearing on November 7.

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