A 46-year-old man was robbed of his car and valu­ables af­ter of­fer­ing a ride to a stranger in Diego Mar­tin ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing. The vic­tim had dropped off his cousin in down­town Port of Spain around 3:40 am when a man ap­proached him, claim­ing to be strand­ed and re­quest­ing a lift to Ceme­tery Street, Diego Mar­tin.

The dri­ver agreed, but up­on reach­ing the des­ti­na­tion, the stranger put him in a head­lock and or­dered him to dri­ve fur­ther. Two ad­di­tion­al at­tack­ers then en­tered the ve­hi­cle, as­sault­ed the dri­ver, and stole $2,000, doc­u­ments, and three mo­bile phones. The men pushed the dri­ver out of the car and es­caped in his sil­ver Toy­ota Field­er Wag­on.

Po­lice from the West End Sta­tion are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent.