The New Brunswick Mounted Police are investigating after a suspect entered a Moncton convenience store with a firearm and stole money and cigarettes.
According to Sgt. Marie-Eve MacKenzie-Plante of the Codiac RCMP, the person entered the Canadian Tire convenience and gas store on Mountain Road in Moncton around 7:30 pm Monday and threatened the cashier with a firearm.
The person later left with an undisclosed amount of money and cigarettes, he said.
MacKenzie-Plante said the RCMP’s general investigation section is conducting the investigation, and police dogs were deployed to the area to track down the suspect.
Police dogs were deployed to track down the suspect.
Contributed by Wade Perry
It was unable to provide a description of the suspect and said the matter remains under investigation.
No one was injured in the incident, he said.
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