Police have charged two people in relation to the alleged armed robbery of a service station in Maryborough and a break in at Rainbow Beach.
Around 12am this morning (July 23), three people rammed the glass doors of a bottle shop in a Rainbow Beach Road shopping centre using a shopping trolley. They then placed multiple bottles of alcohol in the trolley and fled.
Around 1.45am, three people entered a service station at the intersection of the Bruce Highway and Quarry Road. They demanded cash and cigarettes, threatening the attendant with a machete.
They took the money and goods and fled.
The 31-year-old male attendant was not physically harmed during the incident.
Around 6am, police executed a search warrant at a Hibiscus Street, Urangan address and allegedly located alcohol, cigarettes and cash. Two men were later arrested at a Beach Road address.
A 19-year-old man from Urangan was charged with three counts of entering a premises
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