Paint gear ‘may be key to robbery’
PA Tauranga The Tauranga police believe spray-painting equipment may help solve an armed robbery of two supermarket employees at Te Puke. A helmeted man held up two New World supermarket workers at gunpoint outside the National Bank on Monday and made off with $16,000. He rode a yellow motor-cycle. Two Te Puke men passing by in a car pursued the robber to a country road where police later found the motor-cycle and a gas-oper-ated air pistol down a 30m bank. The head of the Tauranga C. 1.8., Detective Senior-Ser-geant Brian McWilliams, said yesterday that an examination of the motorcycle showed it had recently been painted.
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Press, 3 July 1985, Page 3
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