Second youth held after robbery
Christchurch detectives have arrested a second youth in connection with the armed robbery of the Cranford Street Post Office on Thursday. . ...
The youth had been picked up at a city address during the afternoon, said Detective Senior-Sergeant A. . G. I. Rodgers. ...; . . ;; He will appear in the District Court this morning charged with aggravated robbery. The first youth, who was arrested on Thursday only
hours after the hold-up, appeared before the Children and Young Persons Court yesterday on a charge of robbery. He was remanded; in custody to June 5. The gunman who threatened a post, office teller with a sawn-off rifle escaped with about $BOO in'a bag.
He fled the scene on the back of a motor-cycle ridden by another youth. A sum of money has been recovered, according to thepolice.. -
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Press, 30 May 1981, Page 6
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