Police investigate armed robbery at Nanango

A man has been charged after allegedly threatening a service station employee with a knife before stealing a pack of cigarettes in Nanango last night.

It will be alleged around 8.30pm a man approached a 26-year-old male attendant at the Henry Street business and allegedly produced a knife, making threats.

The staff member fled while the man allegedly searched the store and took a packet of cigarettes, stopping briefly to smoke one before fleeing the store.

A man was located a short time later in a vehicle on Bugden Street, Yarraman who allegedly returned a positive Roadside Breath Test.

A 45-year-old South East Nanango man has been charged with armed robbery, enter premises and commit indictable offence and drink driving and will appear in the Kingaroy Magistrates Court today.

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