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Four people were arrested and accused about an aggravated robbery on Levin’s main street last week.
The arrests follow an armed hunt in the Horowhenua district on Friday.
Manawatū, Ross Grantham’s inspector, said in the early hours of Thursday, four people entered a store at Oxford Street and threatened the employee with a firearm.
The group took cigarettes and other items before fleeing the area in a vehicle.
Grantham said the employee was “fortunately without injury,” but was “understandably shaken by the incident.”
He said that, as part of the investigation, police, including the armed criminals squad, led a search warrant at a Seddon Street address on Friday.
Two men on the property were arrested without incidents.
During the search warrant, a vehicle that contains three people was seen leaving the entrance of an entry of a nearby “property of interest.”
Grantham said police signaled the vehicle to stop, however, the driver could not stop and fled the police. One search was abandoned due to the way they were driving, he added.
Shortly thereafter, the vehicle was located abandoned on MacArthur Street after the occupants fled on foot.
Police found a firearm and ammunition near the vehicle and, shortly thereafter, a woman was arrested.
Later, on Friday, a man who had been hidden in a nearby bush before entering a vehicle by a public member was arrested without incidents.
Grantham said the police are still looking for the remaining person and the investigation into the aggravated robbery was underway.
Three men aged 18-23 were appeared in the Levin District Court on Saturday, on charges of aggravated robbery, and a 32 -year -old woman attended Levin’s District Court on charges of firearms.
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