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A sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery that oc­curred in San Juan last Fri­day. The ar­rest fol­lowed an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion by of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion.

Po­lice re­ports state that a 57-year-old man from Point Fortin and a 45-year-old man from San Juan were tar­get­ed af­ter re­spond­ing to an on­line ad­ver­tise­ment for a sil­ver ve­hi­cle priced at $30,000. The vic­tims arranged to meet the sell­er at Za­man Av­enue, San Juan, around 3:15 p.m., fol­low­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion through Face­book and What­sApp.

Up­on ar­rival, the vic­tims were con­front­ed by two men. One sus­pect, armed with a firearm, robbed the first vic­tim of his mo­bile phone, wal­let, and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion doc­u­ments. The sec­ond vic­tim was robbed of his phone, ID, and a back­pack con­tain­ing $30,200 in cash. The sus­pects fled the scene on foot.