An Aranguez woman whose gold chains were snatched whilst in her car in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day, fol­low­ing which she was dragged and thrown on the road be­fore the ban­dit drove off with the ve­hi­cle, had it re­turned to her hours lat­er at her home.

Po­lice said the 36-year-old woman of Sun­der­s­ingh Dri­ve in Aranguez was seat­ed in her sil­ver Hyundai Elantra in the vicin­i­ty of the old Sal­va­tori Build­ing along In­de­pen­dence Square in Port-of-Spain around 12.45 pm.

At the time the ve­hi­cle was on, with the keys in the ig­ni­tion.

The woman re­port­ed that a red Toy­ota Aqua pulled in front of her ve­hi­cle, fol­low­ing which a man ex­it­ed and walked to­wards the dri­ver’s side of her car.

The sus­pect al­leged­ly reached through the dri­ver’s win­dow and grabbed the woman’s Cuban link gold chain with a jade pen­dant val­ued at $5,000, a gold pressed chain with a Hel­lo Kit­ty pen­dant to­geth­er val­ued at $5,000, and a third gold chain val­ued at $2,200.

As the woman re­sist­ed, the sus­pect dealt her sev­er­al blows to her face, ripped off the chains, opened the door and dragged her out be­fore throw­ing her on the road and jump­ing in the car and dri­ving off.

The woman re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to the po­lice be­fore mak­ing her way home.

Hours lat­er, the vic­tim was alert­ed by a neigh­bour that her car had been spot­ted parked low­er down the street from her house.

Up­on check­ing, the woman found the car locked and the keys sit­ting on the hood.

The jew­ellery was not re­turned.

—An­na-Lisa Paul