It was crime spree that ended with the $500,000 armed robbery of a Strathroy jewelry store.
Jeffrey Ysebert, 32, of Port Burwell, pleaded guilty to nine charges Thursday, more than a year after a harrowing afternoon at James O. Poag?s Jewellers, when two men ? one of them Ysebert ? barged in and began smashing show cases with a crowbar.
Along with the plea to armed robbery, Ysebert pleaded guilty to stealing a car from a London car dealership, stealing a pickup truck from a St. Marys car dealership, possession of stolen lottery tickets, two counts of gasoline theft, two counts of driving while disqualified and an armed robbery of a London convenience store.
Regional Crown counsel David Foulds outlined the facts for Ontario Court Justice Jeanine LeRoy.
Foulds said that on June 4, 2012, Ysebert and another man entered the jewelry store with their faces masked.
While they smashed the show cases, owner Jim Poag tried to call 911. One of the men smashed the phone.
Poag ushered his 10 staff into a back office while Ysebert and the other robber grabbed diamonds and diamond rings and shoved them into a duffel bag.
On the other side of the store, they smashed more cases and scooped up men?s and women?s gold chains.
The men left the store and ran to an alley where they were seen getting into a black Dodge Ram pickup truck. The licence plate number was given to police.
The plates had been stolen earlier in the day in Komoka. The truck was from St. Marys.
The Nissan Infiniti listed in Ysebert?s charges was stolen on May 16, 2012. Ysebert was caught on surveillance video stealing gas for the stolen car from Husky gas station and a Petro-Can gas station, both in London.
The Mac?s Milk robbery was on May 19, 2012. Ysebert and another man robbed the variety store, one of them armed with a baseball bat.
The lottery tickets found on Ysebert were stolen from a Mac?s convenience store in Watford that was robbed twice in May.
Ysebert is to be sentenced Aug. 14.
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