A man has been charged following the alleged armed robbery of a service station in Koongal on August 10.

It will be alleged around 9.20pm a man approached the business on Thozet Road riding a child-sized scooter.

He then went inside the store and entered a staff area where he allegedly threatened a 22-year-old female attendant with a nearby pair of scissors, demanding she open the till.

The woman complied and the man allegedly removed a sum of cash before demanding cigarettes.

The man then fled the store on the scooter with the money and cigarettes.

A 28-year-old Zilzie man was arrested yesterday and charged with armed robbery and is due to appear in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on August 13.