CANBERRA: A man armed with an axe and his face covered went into the Lemon Tree Passage Liquor store on Cook Parade at Lemon Tree Passage at 8 45pm (AEDT), police reported.
A Port Stephens bottle shop has been held up by two men armed with an axe and a knife.
He threatened the 34-year-old attendant who was working alone and ordered her to open the safe.
She complied, but the safe was empty.
A second man armed with a knife then came into the bottle shop and demanded the woman empty the cash drawer.
The two men ran off with a sum of cash, tobacco and items from the woman’s handbag.
Investigators are appealing to anyone with information to come forward or to contact Crime Stoppers.
Both men are described as being 170 to 180cm tall, with dark-brown eyes, black eyebrows and tanned skin.
