A 39-year-old man has been charged for the of­fence of rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion, fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent which oc­curred in San­ta Cruz on June 18th, 2020.

Of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports state that AN­TON OTIS SAMUEL, of Laven­tille Ex­ten­sion, Mor­vant, was for­mal­ly charged with the of­fence on June 23rd, 2020.

Samuel ap­peared at the Port of Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court the fol­low­ing day, how­ev­er, the mat­ter was post­poned to Ju­ly 22nd, 2020.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, one Glock 30 pis­tol, be­long­ing to the vic­tim, a po­lice of­fi­cer, al­so was re­cov­ered on Ju­ly 3rd, 2020, and tak­en for analy­sis.

The vic­tim re­port­ed stand­ing in his yard af­ter ex­it­ing his ve­hi­cle when he was ap­proached by an armed, masked in­di­vid­ual, who de­mand­ed cash. The vic­tim re­port­ed­ly at­tempt­ed to draw his li­censed firearm when it was tak­en by a sec­ond sus­pect. The sus­pects es­caped in a wait­ing car af­ter tak­ing a sum of cash from the vic­tim’s ve­hi­cle.

The car was lat­er in­ter­cept­ed, how­ev­er, there was on­ly one sus­pect found in the ve­hi­cle, who was ar­rest­ed.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.