NORTH AUSTIN, TX — Looking for love via one of today's popular dating apps, a man was instead robbed on Christmas Day when he went to meet the woman he met online at a Northwest Austin apartment.

Citing a newly released arrest affidavit, the Austin American-Statesman reported a man using the dating website Plenty of Fish arrived at the Hunters Case Apartments complex at 12342 Hunters Chase Drive where he had agreed to meet the woman last Sunday. But by 9:15 p.m. he reached out to police via 911 instead.

The man told police he and the woman said the date would cost him $150, enticing him to pay her by saying they could have more fun after payment was rendered. While they argued over said remuneration, another man with a gun emerged out of nowhere demanding the man pay up. The victim pulled out about $200 in cash, placing it on the floor. But then he decided he wanted his money back and attempted to retrieve it. That's when the first man pistol whipped him, according to the affidavit.

"Help!" the victim then said as he ran outside the apartment. According to jail records, police eventually arrested Cherice Rachelle Doster, 25, and her boyfriend, Theodore Timothy Demaree (age unavailable), charging them with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison.

Since the crime occurred outside the Travis County jurisdiction, both suspects were booked into the Williamson County Jail, with a surety bond set at $250,000 each.



The name of the victim was not disclosed.