Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding an armed robbery at a service station in Minto during the early hours of this morning.
About 1.15am (Friday, August 18) two men entered the service station on Ben Lomond Road, one armed with a knife.
Police say the bandits threatened the male shop attendant while demanding cash and cigarettes.
The employee handed over an amount of cash from the till and a number of cartons of cigarettes before the pair ran from the scene.
A crime scene was established while detectives from Macquarie Fields conduct further inquiries.
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♦ A man has been charged with high range drink driving after crashing his car and returning a breath analysis reading of 0.304 south of Campbelltown yesterday.
Police responded after being called to Picton Road, Cataract, about 11am following reports of a single vehicle crash.
It appears a Toyota Hilux utility vehicle was being driven west on Picton Road when it hit the centre barrier, veered back across the road and up an embankment, then rolled back onto the roadway blocking the westbound lanes.
The driver, a 52-year-old man from the Illawarra, was not injured but was unable to undertake a roadside breath test.
He was placed under arrest and taken to Wollongong Police Station where he returned a breath analysis reading of 0.304.
The man’s licence was suspended and he was issued a court attendance notice for the offence of high range PCA to appear at Wollongong Local Court on September 26.
