Officers of the North Eastern Division have arrested a 20-year-old man following a robbery with violence in the San Juan district on Thursday evening.

Police said that around 6.30 pm on February 19, a man was at the corner of Third Avenue and the Eastern Main Road, Barataria, where he met someone he had connected with a few days earlier via an online dating application.

The two men proceeded north along Third Avenue towards Mission Road Extension, San Juan. Along the way, the victim noticed two other men standing at the side of the roadway.