SCISSORS were allegedly wielded during an armed hold-up at a Lake Macquarie service station on the weekend.
Police were called at about lunchtime on Sunday, May 5, after reports a man had entered a business on Main Road at Boolaroo, south west of Newcastle, while wielding scissors.
The armed assailant allegedly demanded money from a staff member at the scene at about 1.10pm, before he fled with a "small amount of cash", police said.
Lake Macquarie detectives launched an investigation into the armed robbery and homed in on the man they allege was behind it.
Detectives arrested Wily Jono Perksane, aged in his 40s, at a house on Second Street at Boolaroo, which is off Main Road.
He was taken to a Lake Macquarie police station where he had one charge levelled against him of robbery armed with an offensive weapon.
Perksane made no application for bail in Belmont Local Court on Monday and his release was formally refused by magistrate Stephen Olischlager.
He was not required to enter a plea.
He is expected to face court again in Newcastle in July.
