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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Determined to loot cash and cigarettes, three offenders on Sunday, July 30 broke into a petrol station in South Auckland and robbed the store of an unaccounted amount of cash.
It was still dark at 5:25 a.m. on Sunday and temperature plummeted to nearly two degrees, but that did not stop the brazen robbers to commit this act of crime.
Three men wearing hoodie jackets, and face covered stopped their hatchback car just outside Mobil Petrol Station on Puhinui Road in Papatoetoe and started throwing bricks at the glass gate breaking it open.
The staff and the security guard present inside the store followed their drill as trained; they activated the smoke canon and rushed to safety in the back room.
Even when the smoke canister created a cloud of smoke inside the store, making visibility nearly impossible, the robbers undeterred climbed the cash counter, broke open the cash register using tools and escaped with cash, cigarettes and tobacco from the store.
"Three offenders broke into the store and stole cigarettes, tobacco and the cash register, before fleeing in a car," a police spokesperson confirmed.
What adds to the misery of the store is that it was targeted for the third time in the last two weeks. Earlier last week, on Monday, July 24 the store was robbed of cash and tobacco.
“We have been robbed thrice in two weeks, and loss of property, money and we are living in fear.
“The government has to take stern steps and give harsher punishments for these offenders else this will not stop. These offenders cannot be just let go under the pretence of being underage,” Khushi, staff from the petrol station told The Indian Weekender.
Determined to loot cash and cigarettes, three offenders on Sunday, July 30 broke into a petrol station in South Auckland and robbed the store of an unaccounted amount of cash.
It was still dark at 5:25 a.m. on Sunday and temperature plummeted to nearly two degrees, but that did not stop the brazen...
Determined to loot cash and cigarettes, three offenders on Sunday, July 30 broke into a petrol station in South Auckland and robbed the store of an unaccounted amount of cash.
It was still dark at 5:25 a.m. on Sunday and temperature plummeted to nearly two degrees, but that did not stop the brazen robbers to commit this act of crime.
Three men wearing hoodie jackets, and face covered stopped their hatchback car just outside Mobil Petrol Station on Puhinui Road in Papatoetoe and started throwing bricks at the glass gate breaking it open.
The staff and the security guard present inside the store followed their drill as trained; they activated the smoke canon and rushed to safety in the back room.
Even when the smoke canister created a cloud of smoke inside the store, making visibility nearly impossible, the robbers undeterred climbed the cash counter, broke open the cash register using tools and escaped with cash, cigarettes and tobacco from the store.
"Three offenders broke into the store and stole cigarettes, tobacco and the cash register, before fleeing in a car," a police spokesperson confirmed.
What adds to the misery of the store is that it was targeted for the third time in the last two weeks. Earlier last week, on Monday, July 24 the store was robbed of cash and tobacco.
“We have been robbed thrice in two weeks, and loss of property, money and we are living in fear.
“The government has to take stern steps and give harsher punishments for these offenders else this will not stop. These offenders cannot be just let go under the pretence of being underage,” Khushi, staff from the petrol station told The Indian Weekender.
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