Robbery with violence charge, Coolum

Officers from the Sunshine Coast Property Crime Task Force closed a 16-year-old investigation into the 1998 robbery of a Coolum service station after detectives charged a man yesterday.

Police will allege a man entered the David Low Way Service Station at about 11.45pm on April 27, assaulted and threatened the then 19-year-old male console operator before fleeing with a sum of cash.

A 36-year-old Marcoola man has been charged with one count of robbery with violence and is expected to appear in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court today.

Office in Charge of the Sunshine Coast Criminal Investigation Branch, Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards said this should also serve as a warning to all criminals that there is no time limit on prosecutor offenders for a crime.

‘This result is a credit to the hard work police have invested into this case over a number of year’.

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