A 32 year old man has been charged with three counts of robbery, taking conveyance without authority and common assault.
He is due to appear at Dungannon Magistrates Court on Monday 3rd February. As is normal procedure, all charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.
The charges are in relation to armed robberies in the Mid Ulster area, which occurred on Thursday 30th January.
The charges come after police received three reports of armed robberies at shops in Ballyronan, Coagh and Clonoe on Thursday morning, 30 January.
The first robbery at a filling station on the Ballinderry Bridge Road in Coagh took place at around 6.50am. Two masked men armed with a handgun entered the store and threatened staff, placing a weapon to the head of one man forcing him to open the till.
The robbers made off with a sum of cash, travelling in a vehicle driven by a third man.
The second robbery happened at a supermarket on Shore Road in Ballyronan and was reported just before 7am this morning. Again two men armed with a handgun, threatened staff, placing the gun to the head of one staff member, before making off with cash and a quantity of cigarettes.
A short time later the third armed robbery was reported. This time a shop on Moor Road in Clonoe was robbed at gunpoint, with the suspects again making off with cash.
Later that same day police arrested the suspect along with another man aged in his 50s, with detectives conducting a number of searches at properties in the Churchill Park area of Portadown.
The latter of the two suspects was released on bail on Friday 31st January to allow for further police enquiries.