The recent spate of burglaries targeting cigarette retail outlets across Northland has continued in the Mid and Far North.
The BP service station on State Highway 12 in Kaeo was raided in the early hours of Sunday by three offenders with their faces covered to obscure their identity.
They failed to gain entry and left in one car, abandoning the second car involved with its motor still running.
Both cars are believed to have been stolen.
Later the same morning, the Four Square store in Rawene was raided.