A man who stopped to uri­nate along the high­way was ab­duct­ed, beat­en, robbed and then dumped on the side of the road in Siparia by men claim­ing to be po­lice of­fi­cers over the week­end.

The man re­mained tied up at the side of the road for over 12 hours.

Po­lice said around 5.30 pm on Sat­ur­day, the 37-year-old Morne Di­a­blo res­i­dent was on his way home from a friend’s house when he stopped his white Nis­san B14 along the south­bound lane of Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near Di­a­mond Fly­over to uri­nate. Short­ly af­ter a white van stopped and two oc­cu­pants, wear­ing masks, ap­proached him.

They claimed to be po­lice of­fi­cers and or­dered him to re­turn to his car. 

He sat in the front pas­sen­ger seat, and the two ban­dits en­tered his ve­hi­cle.

They be­gan beat­ing the man, bound his hands with tie straps and cov­ered his mouth.

The ban­dits drove to Quinam Road, Siparia where they dropped the man off on the side of the road.

The vic­tim re­mained on the road un­til re­al po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rived around 9:40 am on Sun­day and freed him. He was tak­en to Siparia Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where he was treat­ed and trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for fur­ther med­ical treat­ment.

Lat­er that day, Cpl Ram­roop and PC Phillip of the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion dis­cov­ered the vic­tim’s car in­tact with the keys in the ig­ni­tion, on a side road off Quinam Road, at Well #44 near Trin­can. 

PC Pha­goo is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.