Man Charged Over Alleged Armed Robbery in Nanango

The cost of cigarettes is already sky high but one South East Nanango man has paid the ultimate price after he was charged with allegedly threatening a service station employee with a knife before stealing a pack of cigarettes in Nanango last night.

It will be alleged around 8.30pm a man approached a 26-year-old male attendant at the Henry Street business and allegedly produced a knife, making threats.

The staff member fled while the man allegedly searched the store and took a packet of cigarettes, stopping briefly to smoke one before fleeing the store.

The offender was located a short time later in a vehicle on Bugden Street, Yarraman who allegedly returned a positive Roadside Breath Test.

The 45-year-old man has been charged with:

• armed robbery
• enter premises
• commit indictable offence
• drink driving

He will appear in the Kingaroy Magistrates Court today.

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