Attribute to: Detective Sergeant Jonathan Oram, CIB Palmerston North
At 8.20pm Saturday 4 August Police attended reports of three males entering the Top Cook Dairy and Takeaways near the corner of College and Cook Streets, armed; with a baseball bat and a hammer.
After stealing tobacco from the shop, the three males left the dairy and were seen getting into a white station wagon parked opposite.
They were last seen driving into Savage Crescent.
No one was injured in the robbery.
Police are carrying out a scene investigation and continuing with area inquiries this morning.
Anyone who may have seen any vehicle fitting this description, or people acting suspiciously around the dairy last night before or after the robbery time, are asked to contact police.
Call Palmerston North Police station on 06 351 3600 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Issued by Police Media Centre