Min­utes af­ter cash­ing a cheque for $380,000 from a bank in Siparia for his em­ploy­er, a work­er was robbed at gun­point on Mon­day.

Po­lice said the 31-year-old vic­tim is a sales clerk em­ployed with Pho­totron­ics Ltd, which al­so hous­es a Mon­ey­Gram out­let on Daisy Voisin Street.

The mon­ey rep­re­sent­ed funds for trans­ac­tions at Mon­ey­Gram, ac­cord­ing to po­lice.

The em­ploy­ee went to Re­pub­lic Bank at High Street around noon, where he cashed the cheque and placed the mon­ey in a black back­pack. His em­ploy­er’s hus­band was wait­ing for him in a Hon­da Vezel, and to­geth­er they head­ed back to the work­place.

How­ev­er, around 1.15 pm, while pro­ceed­ing along Mary Street to­wards Daisy Voisin Street, a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da pulled in front of their ve­hi­cle.

Three sus­pects alight­ed, dressed in long-sleeve green cov­er­alls and ski masks, and armed with a firearm and a ham­mer. They ap­proached the ve­hi­cle and de­mand­ed the mon­ey. The sus­pects grabbed the bag con­tain­ing the cash and re-en­tered the Ti­i­da, which sped off.

Sgt Tai Kan and PC Ra­moutar re­spond­ed, and the area was can­vassed for CCTV footage. How­ev­er, nei­ther the get­away car, the sus­pects, nor the mon­ey were found.

In­quiries are on­go­ing.