A Laven­tille man was ab­duct­ed and robbed af­ter ac­cept­ing a job via TT Ride Share in San­ta Cruz on Sun­day night.

The 30-year-old, of Mc Shine Lands, Laven­tille, who is em­ployed with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Ser­vice as a re­tail of­fi­cer, al­so op­er­ates as a dri­ver with the TT Ride Share com­pa­ny.

Po­lice said the man ac­cept­ed a job via the Ride Share app around 11.15 pm at Sam Bou­caud Grounds, San­ta Cruz, where he was in­struct­ed to pick up a woman near the WASA pump­ing sta­tion.

Ar­riv­ing in his Toy­ota Axio mo­tor­car, the dri­ver was ap­proached by a cou­ple, dur­ing which time four men al­so ap­proached the car and got in.

One of the sus­pects, who was seat­ed in the left rear pas­sen­ger seat, point­ed a gun at the dri­ver and in­struct­ed him to climb in­to the back­seat.

The re­main­ing sus­pects then pro­ceed­ed to search the car, tak­ing the vic­tim’s Sam­sung Z Fold 4 cell phone, val­ued at $8,000; one Google Pix­el 6A cell phone val­ued at $3,500; a bag con­tain­ing $800 in cash which rep­re­sent­ed mon­ey col­lect­ed through the TT Ride Share ser­vice; and one bot­tle of cologne val­ued at US$50.

The sus­pects then placed a vest over the vic­tim’s face and or­dered him out, fol­low­ing which they placed him in the trunk and locked it.

The vic­tim said the sus­pects then drove off but crashed a short dis­tance away.

He was able to free him­self by open­ing the trunk from the in­side and ran to a near­by house, where he re­quest­ed as­sis­tance and the po­lice were con­tact­ed.

The vic­tim ac­com­pa­nied ar­riv­ing of­fi­cers to the scene where they found the car aban­doned.

Ear­li­er this month, a fe­male Ride Share dri­ver was ab­duct­ed and robbed of her ve­hi­cle and valu­ables by ban­dits pre­tend­ing to be cus­tomers. In that in­ci­dent, the 47-year-old dri­ver was con­tact­ed to take a man from Mor­vant to Mar­aval. How­ev­er, as she neared the des­ti­na­tion she was at­tacked and robbed of her car.

The ban­dits or­dered her in the trunk of the car and dropped her off along the La­dy Young Road in Mor­vant.

In May, Ride Share dri­ver Ke­ston Ram­sey was ab­duct­ed and beat­en by men pre­tend­ing to be cus­tomers.

His bank card was tak­en and his ac­count was emp­tied. The ban­dits al­so stole his valu­ables and ve­hi­cle even af­ter he prayed for them.

Al­so that month, a fe­male Ride Share dri­ver was robbed by two men she picked up in Pe­tit Val­ley. Two of the sus­pects were lat­er shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing a car chase and ex­change of gun­fire.