A 46-year-old man was beat­en and robbed of his car and valu­ables af­ter of­fer­ing a ride to a stranger in Diego Mar­tin ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the vic­tim had dropped off his cousin in down­town Port-of- Spain around 3.40 am when a man ap­proached him, claim­ing to be strand­ed and re­quest­ing a lift to Ceme­tery Street, Diego Mar­tin.

The dri­ver agreed, but up­on reach­ing the des­ti­na­tion, the stranger placed him in a head­lock and or­dered him to dri­ve fur­ther.

Two oth­er at­tack­ers then en­tered the ve­hi­cle, as­sault­ed the dri­ver, and stole $2,000, doc­u­ments, and three mo­bile phones. The men pushed the dri­ver out of the car and es­caped in his sil­ver Toy­ota Field­er Wag­on.

Of­fi­cers from the West End Po­lice Sta­tion are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent.