A 25-year-old Dun­can Street man, who gave po­lice a fake name, was ar­rest­ed on Mon­day night for phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing the daugh­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

The man who told po­lice his name was Dwight Yorke, was held af­ter a boat ride, po­lice said, af­ter he was re­cent­ly re­leased from prison for an un­re­lat­ed rob­bery.

De­scribed as a “snatch­er”, the man al­leged­ly grabbed the woman’s gold chain while she was in a taxi along Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain, on De­cem­ber 24, 2024. He is al­leged to have punched the min­is­ter’s daugh­ter in the face, caus­ing her jaw to swell af­ter she yanked the gold chain back from him.