Secret recordings reveal a senior cop’s panic after she was probed over the alleged fake theft of her $30,000 Mazda SUV along with her glamorous cheerleader daughter
- Sergeant taped panicking by secret bug after alleged fraud, Sydney court heard
- Karen Yerbury allegedly obtained $30,571.17 payout after fake car theft in 2018
- Her daughter Regan and two men in 2017 allegedly tried and failed to fake theft
- After call from police, court heard mother say in bugged recording ‘I am in s**t’
A senior police sergeant was heard panicking after being probed by police over allegations the theft of her car was faked for an insurance pay out, a court has heard.
Karen Yerbury allegedly obtained a $30,571 insurance settlement after faking the theft of her Mazda CX-5 along with her alleged accomplices – her daughter’s athletics coach Gavin Dunn and his associate Glenn Stone in February 2018.
Her daughter Regan Yerbury, a former NRL cheerleader, and the two men allegedly tried to fake the theft of the same vehicle in May 2017 only for officers to then find and return the car, police will allege.
Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court heard Karen Yerbury panicked when detectives rang her to say Dunn was suspected of taking the car, with her reaction recorded by a secret surveillance bug.
Regan Yerbury (pictured) allegedly tried to fake the theft of her mother’s Mazda CX-5 – for which her mum received a $30,571 insurance settlement
A secret recording showed Regan’s mother Karen (pictured together) allegedly panicking after receiving a call from detectives, a court has heard
A recording of Ms Yerbury showed her panicking after the call with detectives when she could not get through to Regan.
‘God, I am in s**t, okay,’ she said in the recording played in court, according to the St George Shire Standard.
‘Oh what am I going to do guys, I’m in poo. Too much, too much, too much – she’s not answering the phone, what am I going to do?’
She than called Regan’s father for help and told him ‘I’m under investigation for fraud’.
At that point in the investigation, Crown Prosecutor Heidi Cantor said the mother would not have had any reason to believe she was under investigation.
Karen Yerbury and Glenn Stone have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them – which include attempting to dishonestly obtain a financial advantage through deception.
Regan Yerbury has pleaded not guilty to one count of attempting to dishonestly obtain a financial advantage through deception.
Regan Yerbury is a former NRL cheerleader. She is pictured cave-swimming in Tulum, Mexico in January this year
Regan Yerbury has pleaded not guilty to attempting to dishonestly obtain a financial advantage through deception
Dunn has pleaded guilty to offences including attempting to dishonestly obtain a financial advantage relating to taking the car in 2017, but not guilty to directing a criminal group, dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception and the theft of a motor vehicle.
Regan, then 23, was arrested at her Engadine home in Sydney’s south on November 13, 2018.
She was at that point a recent Bachelor of Nursing graduate from the University of Wollongong.
She had previously been a cheerleader for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.
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