Detectives have charged a man following an armed robbery at a shopping centre in Atherton yesterday morning, Queensland Police say.
It will be alleged at around 11:45am a man entered a computer game store at a shopping centre on Cook Street armed with a knife.
Police will further allege the man demanded money from an employee before fleeing the scene with a sum of cash.
No one was physically injured during the robbery.
As a result of their investigations police took a man into custody at a motel in Mareeba just before midnight.
A 24-year-old Tolga man has been charged with armed robbery and is due to appear in Mareeba Magistrates Court on May 22.
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