7 Feb 2014

Bank teller robbed at gunpoint

6:04 pm on 7 February 2014

Police are searching for an armed man who held up a bank on Auckland's North Shore.

The armed man at the Mairangi Bay branch of ASB.

The armed man at the Mairangi Bay branch of ASB. Photo: NZ POLICE

They say the man went into the Mairangi Bay branch of ASB and pointed a pistol at a teller at 11.23am on Friday.

He was given an amount of money before making off and there have been no confirmed sightings since.

Police say the man is in his mid to late 40s, and was wearing a black T-shirt and carrying a black backpack.

They have released a picture of the man holding a gun at the teller.