PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A 44-year-old man flagged down the police early Friday to report that he had been robbed at gunpoint after a prostitute he had picked up along Elmwood Avenue left his car.

Matthew Andreozzi, of Warwick, stopped a police car at about 4:30 a.m., in the vicinity of Elmwood Avenue and Westfield Street, Commander Thomas A. Verdi said. Andreozzi told the police he had driven the female prostitute to a dead-end side street, but he could not give the street name or identify any landmarks in the area.

After the woman left his car, Andreozzi told the police, a man he does not know walked out of a house, pointed a gun to Andreozzi’s head and stole his wallet, which included a debit card. With the gun still pointed at his head, the man yelled, “Give me the pin for a debit card,” Andreozzi told the police.

The man also stole Andreozzi’s prepaid cell phone and fled in an unknown direction, Verdi said. The police continue to investigate.

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