Police are responding to reports of a robbery and assault in Christchurch 8 March 2021
About 4pm authorities were alerted to a robbery on Waltham s Ensors Road - with a person threatened with a knife and had their phone taken.
Soon after, reports were received of a second assault on Isabella Place, with a stabbing.
Police are working to locate and arrest the alleged offender.
A St John spokesperson says one person has been taken to hospital by ambulance with serious injuries.
Not all the robbery charges related to incidents that happened on Monday, she said. The man would appear in the Christchurch District Court on Tuesday morning.
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Police cordon off a housing complex on Ensors Rd, Christchurch, after a person was stabbed and another was robbed. A witness said he was near the pawn shop on Ferry Rd by Isabella Place when he heard a woman crying out for help. “I climbed over the fence and asked her, ‘are you all good?’ She was carrying a young child. At first I thought it was a domestic. “I gave chase. The guy got around the corner, and he stabbed this dude.”