Brothers admit robbing dairy

Two unemployed teenage brothers yesterday admitted robbing an Oamaru dairy in May of herbal highs, after one drove a car to the shop and the other committed the robbery armed with a knife.

Tyler Patrick Breen (18), of Kakanui, and Corey Anthony Breen (17), of Oamaru, were both convicted in the Oamaru District Court and remanded in custody for sentence on the indictably laid charges.

Appearing before Judge Joanna Maze, each also faced other charges not related to the robbery of the Meadowbank Dairy on May 19.

Tyler Breen was charged with using a knife to commit an armed robbery of herbal highs from dairy owner Xiang Wang.

Corey Breen was charged with robbing the owner of herbal highs.

On Friday, May 18, Corey drove Tyler to Oamaru with the intention of asking the dairy owner for a packet of K2 herbal high, then running off without paying.

That was not successful despite five attempts.

They then discussed robbing the dairy to get the herbal high, with Tyler pretending to have a weapon hidden inside his hooded jacket.

On Saturday, May 19, Corey drove his brother to the dairy, parking a block away in Clyde St where they discussed how to pretend Tyler had a knife to force the shop owner to hand over the herbal highs.

Unbeknown to Corey, Tyler had taken a sharp vegetable knife from the kitchen and had cut holes in his beanie to make it into a balaclava.

Tyler went into the store pulling down the beanie to cover his face and, while the owner was out the back, went behind the counter. He opened the drawer where the herbal highs were kept.

The shop owner, having heard the door buzzer, came out and was confronted with the knife and told: "Don't move or you will know what will happen." Tyler grabbed a basket containing 30 packets of herbal highs, each worth $20, and ran back to his brother's car. The pair returned to a Kakanui address.

The day after the robbery, police searched the Kakanui property, finding the beanie with holes on the floor of the car and the knife in the kitchen. The brothers both admitted the robbery.

Police are asking for $600 reparation for the herbal highs, confiscation of Corey's Mazda 323 car used for the robbery and disqualification of his driver's licence.

Corey was remanded to reappear on August 8 and Tyler on September 3.

Corey also admitted and was convicted of shoplifting $5 of clothes from Jay Jays shop in Timaru on June 28 and a Crimes Act charge of assaulting a female, a 16-year-old girl, on April 10. He has not yet pleaded to charges of assaulting the same girl again and intentionally damaging a cellphone on July 8.

Tyler has also admitted and been convicted of entering a Thames Highway premises with intent to commit a crime on April 21 and theft of a 15-pack of beer from a vehicle in Oamaru on June 12. He has yet to plead to a charge of intentionally damaging a window worth $145.85 on June 17.

 

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