Police have taken two youths into custody following an investigation into the aggravated robbery of a Northcote dairy last month.
The alleged offenders, both aged 16, have since been located and arrested separately.
Detective Sergeant Geoffrey Patterson, of °Â²¹¾±³Ù±ð³¾²¹³Ù¨¡ CIB, says the robbery occurred on Saturday 30 November just before 8.30pm.
¡°The youths allegedly arrived in a stolen vehicle and entered the dairy brandishing weapons.
¡°They are alleged to have threatened several store workers before taking a number of tobacco products and a cash register.
¡°Officers located one of the alleged offenders in the early hours of Friday 13 December in a stolen vehicle in Papakura and arrested them.
"The other was taken into custody this morning, in a separate stolen vehicle on the Southern Motorway, near Ramarama. Both stolen vehicles have been recovered for their owners.¡±
One of the youths will reappear in the Manukau Youth Court on 6 January 2025, charged with aggravated robbery, unlawfully taking a motor vehicle, and unlawfully getting into a motor vehicle.
The other is scheduled to appear in the Wait¨¡kere Youth Court today, facing similar charges.
¡°We won¡¯t tolerate this type of brazen, anti-social behaviour in our communities,¡±?Detective Sergeant Patterson says.
¡°And we continue to use all the resources at our disposal to identify, locate and arrest those who do.¡±
As the matter is before the Court, Police are limited in making further comment.
ENDS.
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