A TT RideShare driver and the customer who hired him to be taken to Maraval to meet a person he had met on the Grindr dating App, were both robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday.
The 32-year-old driver, of Bournes Road, St James, reportedly picked up the Guyanese national around 3 am to take him to Boisserre Village, Maraval, for the meet-up.
As the two arrived at the location, however, they were met by three male suspects who announced a robbery.
The driver was relieved of his Samsung A24 cell phone valued at TT$1,500 and TT$360 in cash; while the passenger was robbed of TT$100 in cash; an iPhone 11 valued at US$400, and an iPhone 14 valued at US$629.
The suspects escaped by running off.