Police have charged a man following investigations into two armed robberies on the Gold Coast on Sunday 22 February.
It will be alleged that around 5.45pm, a man armed with a hammer and with his face covered attended a convenience store on Mildura Drive at Helensvale, threatened the 30-year-old male employee, and fled with a sum of cash.
It will be further alleged that around 6.35pm, the same man entered a cake shop on Cottonwood Place at Oxenford and threatened the 39-year-old male attendant with a hammer, before fleeing with a sum of cash on a dark coloured moped.
No one was injured during either incident.
Following investigations, detectives located and seized a dark coloured Honda moped, belonging to a 20-year-old man, at an Oxenford address on Tuesday 24 February.
A claw hammer was allegedly located in a storage compartment under the moped's seat.
Yesterday, 25 February, detectives executed a search warrant on a different Oxenford address, where they arrested a 20-year-old man.
The 20-year-old Oxenford man has now been charged with two counts of armed robbery.
He is scheduled to appear at Southport Magistrates Court today, 26 February.
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