A man has been sentenced to two years in prison for robbing a Kamloops liquor store with a fake gun.
A BC Supreme Court justice described Lyle Louie in court documents as a “bumbling perpetrator” who pulled a fake gun on two cashiers at the Big Daddy Liquor Store in Kamloops on July 14, 2014.
Louie was intoxicated and wearing a black shirt, ball cap and a brightly-coloured wig at the time — a disguise that the judge said was “not very good”.
After forcing the cashiers to the ground, he took three to four hundred dollars from the cash register and a few packages of cigarettes, and asked the cashiers to let him out the back door. They said they didn’t have a key.
He made them accompany him through the front door, then demanded the cashiers buy him a coffee at the Tim Horton’s next door. When the police arrived at the scene, they found Louie’s disguise in a garbage can at the Tim Horton’s, along with the imitation handgun.
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The cashiers declined, saying Louie had the three to four hundred dollars he had just taken from the register on him.
The judge said Louie is a “good person who made a terrible mistake” and is remorseful for his behaviour, so he’s been awarded the minimum sentence of two years.
“Despite his difficult personal circumstances, Mr. Louie has lived a mostly crime-free life. Given the success of his efforts to address his substance abuse issues, the level of support he has from sober family members, and the important role he has within his family, more harm than good would result from a lengthier term of imprisonment,” the judgement dated Feb. 21 reads.
The judge has recommended he be placed in an Aboriginal healing lodge.
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