Armed robber grabs supermarket takings

Press, 9 December 1988, Page 7

Armed robber grabs supermarket takings

By

GLEN PERKINSON

An armed robber and two associates got away with almost $30,000 in cash and cheques after holding up a security van outside a Stanmore Road supermarket last evening. The armed man, described as a male Maori, aged in his 20s, with long, glossy, black hair, approached two Securitas guards carrying the tak-

ings of the New World supermarket to their van I about 8.15 p.m. ' The offender produced 1 a double-barrelled shot- ’ gun, grabbed the steel i canister containing the I money and ran to the supermarket carpark. He drove away in a . blue Austin or Morris . 1100 car carrying two other men. That was disi covered soon after abandoned in Tweed Street,

Richmond. The three men were seen swapping into a red vehicle in which they drove to Richmond Park, then abandoned it and made off on foot through the park.

The other men were described by the police as a Maori and a European. It is understood the steel canister contained $6OOO cash and more than $22,000 in cheques.