Police want to hear from anyone with information about the robbery at the Kaikohe Discount Store this morning. PHOTO / SUPPLIED
A handgun was pointed at a terrified shopkeeper early this morning in the latest of a spate of armed robberies around the Mid North.
The robbery took place at the Kaikohe Discount Store, a new dairy at the bottom of Broadway, just after 5am.
Detective Sergeant Chris Fouhy, of Kaikohe
police, said the offender entered the store holding a handgun, pointed it at the shopkeeper, and demanded money and cigarettes.
He took cash from the till and a large number of cigarettes before fleeing the shop.
The shopkeeper was on his own at the time.