An em­ploy­ee of the Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs was robbed in Port of Spain on Thurs­day af­ter meet­ing a man on a so­cial net­work­ing site called Grindr.

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice, the vic­tim, a Clerk II at­tached to the Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs, went to meet a man around 10:30 a.m.

The po­lice de­scribed the man as be­ing of African de­scent, slim build, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 5 feet 4 inch­es tall, with a dark com­plex­ion, be­tween 19-23 years old, and wear­ing a white vest, blue 3/4 jeans, and black slip­pers.

They met in the vicin­i­ty of the All-Stars Pan Yard on Duke Street, Port of Spain.

The vic­tim then agreed to pro­ceed to the man’s apart­ment build­ing on the east­ern side of Nel­son Street, Port of Spain.

Up­on as­cend­ing the sec­ond flight of stairs, the vic­tim was ac­cost­ed by five men of un­known de­scrip­tion who pro­ceed­ed to rob him.

The ban­dits took the clerk’s Ap­ple iPhone 13 Pro Max val­ued at $8,000 TTD, Ap­ple Watch 6 val­ued at $4,000 TTD, and Ap­ple ear­buds val­ued at $2,500 TTD.

They al­so took one Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion deb­it card and one Roy­al Bank deb­it card.

The sus­pects then made their es­cape in dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions.