Dopey Melbourne criminal mastermind Sara Hamie pleads guilty to aggravated burglary
A Melbourne criminal mastermind ordered her minions on a drug run-through which ended with a bungled home invasion at the wrong house.
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A former Melbourne Airport staffer exposed as the organiser of a bungled drug run-through in Melbourne’s northwest has avoided further jail time
Sara Hamie, 25, was sentenced in the County Court on Tuesday to time served – 34 days – after pleading guilty to aggravated burglary.
The court heard Hamie’s co-accused Majok Majok, Elijah Jangroor and another man stormed a Thomastown home just before 4am on January 5 last year
Majok, 21, and Jangroor, 22, both pleaded guilty to home invasion and theft.
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 smashed their way into The Boulevard home which woke their hapless victims.
The victims, a young couple, heard smashing glass before being confronted by the offenders.
The male victim went to the stairs and yelled down to his assailants.
An offender ran up the stairs and ordered the male victim to sit down.
The assailant then ushered the victim to the bedroom where he sat with his girlfriend.
An offender, armed with a knife, asked the pair “where are the drugs” but the female victim said they didn’t have any.
“What’s your name … are you Pepi?,” the offender asked.
The offender, who apologised to the victims, said they were “looking for someone who had done wrong by his family”.
The offenders stole a phone then fled the home.
Investigators examined the scene and discovered blood stains throughout the house.
Police suspected one of the offenders cut themselves on broken glass while storming the home.
Investigators, which had phone taps running on the crew prior to the home invasion, arrested Hamie and Majok later that day.
Police seized devices, a CCTV hard drive, a black knife and a bloodstained pair of Adidas shorts.
The CCTV footage revealed movement between Hamie, Majok and the other offenders prior to the home invasion.
Majok, who also pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worked, kicked an officer at Hamie’s home and went bananas at the cop shop.
Majok had to be subdued with capsicum spray after he punched multiple police officers and kneed a member in the stomach.
Messages between Hamie and Majok revealed how the ham-fisted home invasion went awry.
“I’m gonna send you a photo of the house,” Hamie wrote before sending a Google Maps image of the intended target home.
“You walk down that ally way there a garage …,” Hamie said.
“I’ll have my phone next to me … where he walks out with the blonde chick … I know his blonde chick … that is the house.”
“Done, done easy … take care,” Majok replied.
“Is it the first one with the red car there?”
“Not the red one …,” Hamie responded.
“Where is says ***, you need to walk all the way down … do you see where the wood fence is? You walk all the way down there … there will be a house and a garage.”
“Sweet done … I’m gonna go now,” Majok said.
“Facetime me before you get there so you don’t f**k up again,” Hamie demanded.
Majok then told her their intended target wasn’t home.
“That’s better for you … jump the fence and the back garage will be open … that’s where all the stuff is …
“If you can’t find anything just wait outside until he gets home because that means he’s just picked up, but I’m pretty sure his garage has everything. He doesn’t hold juice on him or anything.”
”Will the guy snitch cause I got bare hands,” Majok asked.
“Nah he won’t he doesn’t snitch but to be on safe side wipe he won’t be home anytime soon he went to pick up or see someone,” Hamie said.
Jangroor, who was arrested months later on April 13, told police he regretted participating.
“After I did that s**t, I didn’t think it would bite me in the arse … I guess it did,” he said.
“Sara that b***h bro (organised it) … when I saw the people and it wasn’t the people (I knew it was the wrong house) … It was supposed to be a couple of dudes.
“I wasn’t going to do it for free … we hit the wrong house … you don’t get paid if you hit the wrong house.”
Hamie, a former Melbourne airport staffer, works as a receptionist but is studying to become a drug counsellor was also handed a two-year community correction order.
Judge Michael Cahill called Hamie the “organiser” of the escapade.
Majok was jailed for a maximum two years and three months with a minimum of 21 months.
Jangroor was jailed for 18 months and handed a 12-month CCO.
A fourth accused is contesting charges.
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