 Alright, when you're ready. Okay, thanks for coming along. Last night at about 10 to midnight there were three armed offenders that went into the Lucky Star Tavern on Hellowale Road at Sunnybank Hills. At the time of entering the hotel there were two employees and two members of the public inside the hotel. Now these three offenders were armed with firearms at the time and they threatened staff. One of the members of the public was in the process of attempting to leave and was actually apprehended by one of the offenders. He was pushed to the ground where he actually received some blows to the head and as a result of that we received some minor injuries. Now these offenders escaped with a sum of money mostly from the poker machines and also from a safe and left in what we believe to be a vehicle that was outside. Now this robbery we believe is linked to another robbery which occurred just after midnight on Friday night, Saturday morning. Now that robbery occurred at the Sunnybank Hotel which is on my College Street at Sunnybank. Once again there were three armed offenders fully disguised who entered and threatened patrons and staff at that location as well. Now at that time there are a number of staff and probably about 12 or so patrons. A number of the patrons did flee the scene and were lucky to have escaped any injuries. However the cashier was assaulted by one of the armed offenders and once again a quantity of money was stolen during the course of that robbery. So the police service obviously is extremely concerned that we actually have some active offenders who are armed with firearms and at this stage the exact description of the firearms has a multitude of descriptions but predominantly they're long-arm weapons be they shotguns or sawn off long-arm firearms. So we're very concerned in relation to the safety of the public in relation to these events. We doubt very much that this is going to be the last defense of these people commit before we actually get hold of them and we're very concerned that should a member of the public be present at the hotel when another offense occurs we actually would be advising that people not try to be heroes. Simply do what you're asked and if you're asked to get on the ground get on the ground and you should be able to escape the incident without injury. At this stage of the game we're conducting inquiries in relation to this matter in conjunction with the South Brisbane District CIB, the Oxley District CIB and also major crime of state crime operations command. They're fully disguised in either hooded jackets that they pull over their heads, shirts across their faces and their arms and legs have been covered as well with tracksuit pants and that sort of thing. Not that long at all probably about five minutes at the probably the most they're able to get in there make the demands get what they needed and get out fairly quickly. The patrons or the offenders? Brazen, very brazen I mean they're taking a great risk that if a member of the public does decide to try and intervene which we're urging that they don't do we're more concerned that if they do try to intervene that it might push these offenders beyond what their initial intent were but and we don't want to see that actually occur. Yeah the hotels in the area have been advised to increase their security in the general area. We're not able to say exactly where and when a third offence may occur and we're also conducting inquiries to see if these offences are linked to other offences that have occurred in the past few months. Yeah the Runcorn Tavern is one that we're looking at to see if it's linked as well as the Centenary Tavern. There was also a robbery at a place called Gogeko which was a real estate firm so there's a number of offences which we're looking at to see where they are or are not linked. At this stage we're not ruling any of those in or out as being possibly linked to these offenders. Of those? Probably at two months. Yes the ones that we're looking at are in the Oxley district area as well as in South Brisbane's area but we're not ruling out the fact they could also be linked to ones that may have occurred down Logan etc because like I said until we actually can find some good strong evidence at this stage it's an assumption that we'll draw to say they might be linked but we can't say conclusively. At this stage all we know it's a white vehicle at this point in time. The full description hasn't yet been confirmed? No. He was fairly shaken up. He was only a young fellow and obviously wasn't expecting it but he did receive minor injuries and fortunately he didn't put up a struggle once he was confronted by these fellows. We'll never divulge the amounts of money that are stolen from any any robbery for obvious reasons. Yeah they didn't do too badly. Yeah that's right in the robbery that occurred at the Sunnybank Hotel on the early hours of Saturday morning the cashier actually didn't do anything to resist the offenders. He was assaulted which was more like a warning to not resist and certainly the one that happened last night the fellow was leaving the premises and that didn't fit their plan so he was assaulted. So yes I'm very very concerned that anybody who decides to attempt to stand up to these fellows could end up a lot more seriously injured than what the last two have. They did obviously. The exact words are not going to be released at this particular point in time for obvious reasons we're looking at the similarities so we don't want to let that information out just yet. I think the fact that they're allowed with three firearms pretty much gave that away. Like I said I won't comment on what they actually said. Okay all right if any member of the public does have knowledge about these three offenders and wants to give the information even if it's anonymous they can call Crime Stoppers on 1800 triple three triple zero that's 1800 triple three triple zero. We obviously are very concerned that there are weapons involved here at this stage of the game it hasn't gone to serious injuries but certainly if you know these people or even if you think you know these people that information would be vital and it could help this from escalating to a much more serious situation. Well obviously they're in Crime Stoppers there's a standard Crime Stoppers rewards for information but this day's a police reward hasn't been set no. Okay yeah it's Detective Inspector and it's Jeff with the G G-O-F Aikerman-A-C-R-E-M-A-N. Thank you.