Update: Armed robbery Beenleigh

Detectives are seeking assistance from the public to locate cash boxes that were stolen during an armed robbery at a tavern at Beenleigh.

Police are searching for two men who robbed the tavern at gunpoint in the early hours of April 4.

During the robbery nine cash boxes in total were stolen with two of these cash boxes located abandoned on Schmidt Road at Eagleby on April 8, 2019.

Investigators are requesting the public do not to touch the cash boxes (pictured) if they locate them and to contact police. If anyone has already located any tins please surrender them to your local police station.

Around 1.50am two men armed with sawn off firearms entered the Distillery Road tavern and made demands for money obtaining cash from two female employees, aged 48 and 27 years, and a 42-year-old male patron of the business.

The men then demanded access to a number of poker machines where they obtained further money.

During the incident it appears one of the men discharged a firearm into the floor.

No one was injured during the robbery.

Both of the men are described as Caucasian in appearance, aged between 18 to 25 years and were wearing runners, track pants, dark coloured hoodies, gloves and their faces covered.

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