A Point Fortin man has been ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a re­port from a lo­cal teacher who was al­leged­ly threat­ened with the re­lease of a sex­u­al­ly ex­plic­it video.

The sus­pect is ac­cused of ex­tort­ing a to­tal of $3,800 TTD from the vic­tim over sev­er­al weeks.

Po­lice say the 55-year-old teacher, whose iden­ti­ty has not been re­leased, con­tact­ed au­thor­i­ties af­ter a man he knew al­leged­ly sent him mul­ti­ple threat­en­ing mes­sages.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, the sus­pect de­mand­ed mon­ey in ex­change for not re­leas­ing the pri­vate video.

The teacher re­port­ed meet­ing the man on five sep­a­rate oc­ca­sions in Point Fortin to make pay­ments.

Af­ter an in­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion, po­lice ex­e­cut­ed a co­or­di­nat­ed, in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in the Point Fortin dis­trict on Fri­day.

Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed a 32-year-old man from Fan­ny Vil­lage, Point Fortin.

He is cur­rent­ly as­sist­ing po­lice with their in­quiries and faces po­ten­tial charges of six counts of de­mand­ing mon­ey with men­aces and five counts of sim­ple rob­bery.

The op­er­a­tion was co­or­di­nat­ed by As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Pierre and su­per­vised by Sergeant Bac­chus, Cor­po­ral Baksh, and Cor­po­ral Ram­per­sad.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.