Gold Coast crime: Parkwood store robbed for cigarettes

A Gold Coast convenience store has been hit in a brazen armed robbery for cigarettes.

Police are at the scene of an alleged robbery of a Gold Coast convenience store that happened just after midday.

UPDATE 7PM

POLICE are investigating an armed robbery at a Gold Coast convenience store that involved a replica firearm.

The robbery happened at a store on Zoeller Dr, Parkwood, about 12.30pm.

A Queensland Police Service spokesman said cigarettes were stolen during the robbery.

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POLICE are at the scene of a robbery at a Gold Coast convenience store that happened just after midday.

A Queensland Police spokesman said officers were called to the scene about 12.30pm after the store on the corner of Parkwood Blvd and Zoeller Dr was robbed.

The Bulletin is seeking more information from police.

The Sunday robbery occurred just weeks after two men allegedly brandished a machete and bat during a terrifying raid on a Coomera hotel.

It is alleged in that incident the men threatened staff at the Coomera Lodge Hotel just before midnight on September 7 before fleeing in a stolen car.

A police spokesman said at the time the pair allegedly smashed through a glass door to gain entry to the gaming room.

He said the hotel was closed, however, there were staff members finishing up for the night.

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“The men (allegedly) confronted a 48-year-old staff member and demanded he empty the content of the tills into a bag they were carrying,” he said.

“The men fled the hotel with the money and were seen to get into a stolen 2005 Nissan Navara with Queensland registration plates 504 ZYO.”

Two Gold Coast men were charged over the incident.

A 31-year-old Varsity Lakes man faces charges of armed robbery, enter premises to commit indictable offence, going armed to cause fear and wilful damage.

He will reappear in Southport Magistrates Court on October 8.

A co-accused, a 20-year-old Nearng man, was also charged with armed robbery, enter premises to commit indictable offence, going armed to cause fear and wilful damage.

His case will reappear in the same court on October 29.

No one was physically injured in the Coomera robbery.