A 33-year-old woman has been ar­rest­ed for al­leged­ly con­ning a woman out of $6,000 which was a down­pay­ment on a ve­hi­cle.

De­spite re­peat­ed calls, the ve­hi­cle was nev­er de­liv­ered.

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice, around 1 pm on Au­gust 7, a 23-year-old woman met an­oth­er woman close to Xtra Plaza, Tu­rure, San­gre Grande.

The vic­tim told po­lice that the woman, who was dressed in Mus­lim wear, col­lect­ed $6,000 from her.
The mon­ey rep­re­sent­ed a down­pay­ment on a Nis­san Ti­i­da which was ad­ver­tised on Face­book as a work-to-own deal.

The vic­tim re­port­ed to po­lice of­fi­cers that arrange­ments were made for the ve­hi­cle by the sell­er to be de­liv­ered to her on Au­gust, 9. How­ev­er, all sub­se­quent ef­forts to con­tact the sell­er were un­suc­cess­ful.

When the vic­tim checked on Face­book in a bid to reach out to the sell­er, the post ad­ver­tis­ing the ve­hi­cle for sale had al­so been delet­ed.
As a re­sult, a re­port was made to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed.

On Au­gust 11, Cpl Ram­nar­ine, PCs Samuel, Ciel­to, Wong, and WPC George, to­geth­er with of­fi­cers of San­gre Grande CID, co-or­di­nat­ed an ex­er­cise close to the San­gre Grande Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal com­pound, where they lat­er ar­rest­ed a 33-year-old fe­male sus­pect from San­ta Cruz Old Road, San Juan.

The sus­pect was lat­er placed on an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rade, where po­lice said she was pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied by the vic­tim.

Po­lice have again urged cit­i­zens to be cau­tious about the sales on so­cial me­dia and have made calls for trans­ac­tions to be con­duct­ed near po­lice sta­tions and for of­fi­cers to be in­formed be­fore a meet-up takes place.