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Halifax police respond after robber with axe flees Ultramar with cigarettes and cash

Halifax police are investigating an early morning robbery after a man wielding an axe entered an Ultramar gas station and demanded money and cigarettes from the attendant. Investigators say the robbery took place at about 3 a.m.
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A Halifax Regional Police emblem is seen as police officers attend a murder scene in Halifax on Thursday, July 2, 2020. Halifax police are investigating an early morning robbery after a man wielding an axe entered an Ultramar gas station and demanded money and cigarettes from the attendant. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

Halifax police are investigating an early morning robbery after a man wielding an axe entered an Ultramar gas station and demanded money and cigarettes from the attendant.

Investigators say the robbery took place at about 3 a.m. today at the location on 219 Pleasant Street, in Dartmouth.

Police say nobody was injured, but the suspect left on foot with an undisclosed amount of money and cigarettes.

Multiple police cars and police service dogs responded during a search of the residential suburb for the suspect.

Halifax police said early today they were looking for a white man in his thirties wearing a brown jacket, dark scarf and a toque.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 17, 2022.

The Canadian Press

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