Crime & Safety

Enfield Store Robbed for Drug, Housing Money

Court documents reveal a Somers couple are responsible for the Labor Day Enfield convenience store robbery on South Road that left a clerk bloodied and a pocket-book theft at Shop Rite days earlier.

According to testimony detailed in court documents, 24-year-old Frank Wein told police he robbed the convenience store so he and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kylie Russell, who drove the getaway car, could get money to support a prescription drug habit, buy food and afford a place to stay.

Wein told authorities he and his girlfriend, who share a child, have been living in a storage unit and in Russell's 2009 Toyota Corolla.

Russell was issued a summons in an incident prior to Monday's robbery, for which she was charged with stealing a pocket book from a parked car at Shop Rite in Enfield.

Court documents reveal Wein mentioned to Russell the intent to rob several convenience stores in Enfield before heading into the Getty station store at 126 South Road, where he would slash a clerk as he made his getaway.

Russell told police, court documents say, Wein didn't tell her exactly why he was going into the store, just to wait in the car for him to come out.

Court documents say Wein told police he went into the store Monday night with a folding knife in his hand to incite fear in the store employee. When he saw no one behind the counter, he jumped over the counter, accidentally knocking over a shelf and triggering the cash register to open.

The noise alerted the clerk on duty, who came out from stocking shelves to find a hooded Wein attempting to make a getaway. A scuffle ensued, during which Wein cut the clerk on his head and face before hopping into Russell's Toyota, according to court documents.

The clerk was transported to Johnson Memorial, where he received 14 stitches and was told he suffered fractured bones in his face.

Wein made off with $1,500 in cash from the register.

An Enfield Police investigation resulted in the recovery of key evidence, including the folding knife used, which was found on Locke Drive.

Wein was charged with first-degree robbery, conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, fourth-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit fourth-degree larceny an carrying a dangerous weapon.

He is being held on $50,000 bond and is due to appear in court on Sept. 27.

Russell was charged with fifth-degree larceny.


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