Two to face armed robbery charge today

GATTON detectives investigating the armed robbery of a Hatton Vale service station on March 2 have charged two men with armed robbery in company.

It will be alleged that the Warrego Highway business was robbed by two men armed with bladed weapons shortly after midnight.

They fled with an undisclosed sum of cash.

The men, a 22-year-old from North Ipswich and a 23-year-old from Leichhardt, are due to appear in the Ipswich Magistrates Court this morning.