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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Chaguanas woman tricked out $5,500 trying to get 'cheap drinks'

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Anna-Lisa Paul
20 days ago
20250627

A 32-year-old Ch­agua­nas woman was tricked out of $5,500 in cash as she tried to “get in” on an al­leged drinks deal.

Po­lice said the vic­tim mes­saged a man on Face­book - whom she was in­tro­duced to by a mu­tu­al friend and known on­ly as Glenn who claimed he was em­ployed at Tru Valu, Trinci­ty Mall– en­quir­ing about an al­leged link to ob­tain cheap drinks.

The vic­tim arranged to meet the sus­pect at Tru Valu around 11.30 am on June 25.

The two met in the carpark, fol­low­ing which the man who is of African de­scent and slim built with a low hair­cut – told the woman she had to pur­chase some emp­ty cas­es.

The sus­pect who was said to be a Grena­di­an na­tion­al, clad in a long sleeved cardi­gan, black face mask, long blue jeans and a read­ing glass­es took the woman to Haux­ing Su­per­mar­ket, East­ern Main Road, Tacarigua where she pur­chased $100 worth of emp­ty cas­es.

The two then head­ed back to Tru Valu, Trinci­ty where she hand­ed over the cash along with her dri­ver's per­mit af­ter he stat­ed that his su­per­vi­sor was go­ing to or­gan­ise an in­voice.

Un­easy af­ter he failed to re­turn a short while lat­er, the woman en­tered the gro­cery and spoke to the su­per­vi­sor on du­ty, where she was then in­formed that there was no Glenn em­ployed at the gro­cery.

Nu­mer­ous calls to his cell phone went unan­swered.

On the last call, the sus­pect an­swered and told he was head­ed to Chi­napoo, Mor­vant be­fore it was dis­con­nect­ed.

The woman lat­er went to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion where she filed a re­port.


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