Machete wielding teens charged for robbery in Tonga

Police in Tongatapu have arrested four teenagers aged 17-18 years in relation to an armed robbery at Tofoa last Saturday.

Kaniva News reports the teenagers threatened a shopkeeper with a machete on June 10, 2017.  

Police believe the suspects fled with around $300 pa’anga after they entered the Chinese shop at around 11:40pm.

A Police search and investigation team found the teenagers on Monday, June 12.

They had been charged with armed robbery.