Police are searching for three people after a large amount of money was stolen during a crime spree at Lake Macquarie.
The trio driving a stolen ute, pantech and flatbed truck forced their way through an external toilet door at a service station on Wyee Road at Wyee at about 3.30am on Tuesday, escaping with a safe containing a substantial sum of cash as well as a large amount of cigarettes.
They then tried to unsuccessfully take an ATM during a ram raid on a second service station on Main Road at Fennell Bay about an hour later.
The vehicles involved were stolen from Cessnock, West Gosford and Scone.
Police say the vehicles are a silver Toyota utility with the rego CQ 21 JZ, a white Mitsubishi Pantec truck with the rego BT 73 PL and a white Mitsubishi Canter flatbed truck with the rego CE 78 NR.
