POINT FORTIN MAN ABDUCTED, BEATEN AND ROBBED

A 30-year-old Point Fortin man has reported to police that he was kidnapped, beaten, robbed and threatened.

Sheldon Lavine told lawmen that he was standing at the Frisco roundabout in Point Fortin around 8.15pm when he was approached by three men he knew, one driving a green B-14 Sentra motorcar and two men on foot. The three men reportedly ordered Lavine into the car and when he refused, one of his attackers struck him with a gun-butt on his head. He was bundled into the backseat of the car and taken to Egypt Village, to a lonely street off the South/Central Point Fortin Road. Lavine reported he was robbed of TT$900 by the men. 

According to Lavine, the driver of the car threatened to kill him. One of the attackers reportedly told him that he would have been killed if people had not seen them put him into the car at the roundabout. Lavine’s kidnappers released him, and bleeding from the head, he stumbled towards the  Point Fortin Police Station to report the matter. PCs Sookraj and Mitchell took Lavine to the Point Fortin District Hospital.

Yesterday, a team of police officers, led by Ag Insp Wells, conducted an exercise and arrested two men in connection with the incident. A 35-year-old man was arrested at a house in Fyzabad, while a 27-year-old  was arrested in the New Village district. A warrant was issued for the arrest of a third man of New Village. The arrested men are expected to appear in the Point Fortin Magistrate’s Court today to face charges of kidnapping and robbery with violence. Point Fortin police are continuing investigations.