Rad­hi­ca De Sil­va 

A 20-year-old woman was robbed and forced out of a car af­ter she board­ed a ve­hi­cle she be­lieved was le­git­i­mate trans­porta­tion ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing.

Po­lice say the woman, a wait­ress from Mara­bel­la, was wait­ing for trans­port along Point-a-Pierre Road in San Fer­nan­do around 3.40 am when she got in­to a gold Nis­san Cube with three men.

She asked to be tak­en home, but in­stead the dri­ver head­ed to­wards the South­ern Main Road in Mara­bel­la. When she in­sist­ed they take her to her des­ti­na­tion, one of the pas­sen­gers pulled a knife and an­nounced a rob­bery.

The men drove in­to the com­pound of Trop­i­cal Plaza, where the pas­sen­ger with the knife took her purse and stole $1,000 — her week’s salary.

They then drove to the Petrotrin Round­about and or­dered her out of the ve­hi­cle be­fore head­ing north.

The woman walked to the Mara­bel­la Po­lice Sta­tion and re­port­ed the in­ci­dent. Of­fi­cers are check­ing CCTV from sev­er­al lo­ca­tions along the route and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.