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Police have charged two men with the robbery of a suburban Christchurch post shop yesterday.
The charges allege they made off with $240 after the incident at the Woolston branch about 1.20pm.
Both men were remanded in custody when they appeared separately in Christchurch District Court today.
Richard Tutengaehe, 37 and unemployed, was remanded to May 4. He is charged with entering the Woolston Post Shop with intent to commit a crime, and robbing it.
Anthony Maurice Clarke, 38, is jointly charged with robbing the post shop with Tutengaehe, and also faces a charge from December alleging he entered the enclosed yard of a business in Wilsons Road with intent to commit a crime.
He made no bail application and was remanded to April 27 by Judge Russell Callander.
The charges give the addresses for both men as no fixed abode in central Christchurch.
The police yesterday praised members of the public for following a person from the post shop to a waiting vehicle, recording its registration number, and reporting the details.
- NZPA
