Reward offered after robbery
PA Tauranga A reward is being offered to help the police catch two men who bound a lone female attendant of a Lotto-video outlet in Welcome Bay on Saturday evening. . The two men made off with a small amount of cash In bags. : They entered the suburban Tauranga Video Station at 8.40 p.m., 20 minutes before closing: time and threatened the 19-year-old shop assist*
with an iron bar. The robbers bound her hands and feet with plastic tape and placed her on the floor behind the. shop’s counter. They took money from ah open safe and the contents of the till. The /Video Station’s owner, Mr Wayne Renner, said the robbers stole only a small amount of money. The bulk of the day's takings had been earlier removed by security people.
He would not say how much had been stolen. Mr Renner said a reward of $lOOO was being offered by him for information which would lead to the arrest and. conviction of the two offenders. He said the shop assistant, who had been working at the Video Station for five months, was not hurt during the robbery and was back at work yesterday.
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Press, 1 August 1989, Page 23
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