Police have charged a man following the alleged robbery of a service station at Clontarf overnight.

It will be alleged at 8.30pm a man entered the MacDonnell Road business and threatened a staff member with a knife while demanding cash and cigarettes.

The staff member complied, and the man left the store on foot.

Police arrested a man who was seen running on Elizabeth Avenue a short time later.

A 20-year-old Clontarf man has been charged with one count of armed robbery and appeared in the Redcliffe Magistrates Court today where he was remanded in custody to reappear again on October 18.

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