Around 5:35am on Tuesday 11th February 2014, the shop assistant at the “Top of Chapel” Takeaway store 108 Chapel Street, Glenorchy has been approached after opening and disarming the store by a male offender, brandishing a machete.

The offender has threatened the shop assistant with the machete before stealing a large amount of cigarettes and cash and fleeing in the shop assistants 1990 blue Mitsubishi Star wagon Registration : C15ZZ.

This vehicle was later recovered in Hudson Crescent, Glenorchy.

Nobody was physically harmed in the Robbery.

The offender is described as: 181cm tall, with broad shoulders and a medium build, he spoke with a hard voice and was wearing black full length overalls with a zip up front, the overalls had a hood which was over the offenders head and he wore a dusk mask or similar over his face, he was wearing black boots and had yellow washing up gloves over his hands.