Peel Regional Police is reminding the public that it has established Buy and Sell Exchange Zones after an individual seeking to buy a car was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday, March 2 in Brampton.

According to police, the victim met the suspect in the afternoon at a hotel in the area of Airport Road and Coventry Road to discuss the details of purchasing a car. The two settled on a price and agreed to meet later that day at a parking lot in the area of Sunny Meadow Boulevard and Red River Drive.

The two met between 4:30 and 5 p.m. when the suspect pulled a handgun from his waistband and demanded the cash the victim had bought to purchase the vehicle. The victim was not injured.

The suspect is described as male, South Asian, five-foot-ten to 6-feet tall, curly hair, wearing a black sweater with zipper, blue pants and a faded front.