New Brunswick RCMP investigate armed robbery at Moncton convenience store

The New Brunswick RCMP is investigating after a suspect entered a convenience store in Moncton with a firearm and stole money and cigarettes.

According to Sgt. Marie-Eve MacKenzie-Plante with the Codiac RCMP, the person entered the Canadian Tire Gas and Convenience Store on Mountain Road in Moncton around 7:30 p.m. Monday and threatened the cashier with a firearm.

The person then left with an undisclosed amount of money and cigarettes, she said.

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MacKenzie-Plante said the RCMP’s general investigative section is conducting the investigation, and police dogs were deployed in the area to track the suspect.

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She was not able to provide a description of the suspect and said the matter remains under investigation.

Nobody was injured in the incident, she said.

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