Regional Investigations Unit detectives have charged a third person in relation to an armed robbery offence in Port Kennedy on Wednesday 7 June 2012.

About 12:00am four people entered the store on Fielden Way and approached the counter. It will be alleged two of the people in the group were armed with hammers, and a staff

member at the store was assaulted with both weapons, receiving head and shoulder injuries. The staff member was taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment to his injuries.

Regional Investigations Unit detectives arrested a 19 year old man (age is at time of incident and arrest) on Wednesday 4 July 2012 and charged him with Aggravated Armed Robbery.

An 18 year old man (age is at time of incident and arrest) was charged with Aggravated Armed Robbery by Regional Investigations Unit detectives on Friday 6 July 2012 after he

was identified as a passenger in a vehicle that had been stopped by the Traffic Enforcement Group.

A third person of interest to the investigation was located by Regional Investigations Unit detectives yesterday, Wednesday 7 November 2012, after he returned to Australia from New

Zealand a few days earlier. The 17 year old boy from Leda, who was 16 years old at the time of the incident, has been charged with Aggravated Armed Robbery and will appear in the

Perth Children’s Court today, Thursday 8 November 2012. Inquiries are continuing.