A court appearance is likely soon for a man suspected of attempting to lure lone women to secluded areas with an allegedly fraudulent claiming they had car radiator leaks.

Police yesterday confirmed a man had been arrested in the wake of the reports, but still a spokesman warned women not to fall into the trap and pull over, after a spate of cases on the Island.

One woman said she was approached on Middle Road, Smith?s, at 8.30 p.m. on Friday. The 52-year-old came to a stop sign when a bike pulled up next to her. The driver said her car was spilling anti-freeze and was ?going to blow up?.

The health worker added: ?He said he was a mechanic and told me to follow him for help. I thought ? this is my lucky day.?

But when the pair got to a parking lot near the Whitney Institute and the man started checking tyres, she said alarm bells rang. A visit to a gas station confirmed there was no anti-freeze spill.

The woman said she felt ?lucky? because she spotted the man making a cell phone call before she drove off. ?It never occured to me in a million years that it was a set up.?

In a letter to , another woman said she was approached on the way to church, in Somerset, on Saturday at about 9.30 a.m.

She told how a black man, in his late teens to early 20s on a grey bike with a black helmet, rode alongside her and said she had a flat tyre.

The woman followed after he offered to help, but alarm bells rang when he got to the top of Fort Scaur.

She said: ?When he saw that I was not coming he came back and said: ?Lady your car is leaking anti-freeze and your tyre is flat right down to the metal?. He was very insistent.?

She drove away from the man, but as the woman was on her way home she saw him trying the same scam on another female driver. When her husband and sons checked the car when she got home, they found nothing wrong with the vehicle. She went to Somerset Police Station to make a complaint and saw the woman she spotted being hounded making an identical complaint. Police also told her that he had tried the scam on another woman at the same place at about 8 a.m. Officers also believe the man was in the Devonshire area last week.

In a similar incident, a marketing worker said she was riding past Ariel Sands, Devonshire, when a man tried to get her to pull over on Friday night. He said her bike was badly leaking oil and offered to help ? but he kept insisting. ?My oil light had started to blink that day telling me I needed oil so I didn?t think I would be leaking oil really badly all over the road.?

The 29-year-old said when the man realised he was not getting anywhere, he drove off. When the woman checked later she found that there was no oil leak.

?It wasn?t until I checked that I realised what he was trying to do. I count myself lucky because I don?t know what he would have done had I stopped.?

A Bermuda Police spokesman said: ?We have received reports of an individual driving in the western parishes telling women to stop for various reasons.

?We are advising women not to stop for individuals who they do not have an established relationship with.?

He also said they women motorists should take care and get a good description of the suspect who approaches them.

Anyone with information should call Inspector James Howard on 295 0011.

Meanwhile a man on a rental cycle suffered a dislocated shoulder when he was robbed in the early hours of Saturday morning on North Shore Road, Pembroke.

The 45-year-old victim, from Devonshire, was riding east at 1.30 a.m. when a man on a small blue scooter approached him from behind and kicked the rental cycle, causing him to pull over and stop.

He was then attacked by the suspect, who punched and kicked him about the body and struck him in the face before taking his wallet containing $130 in cash and personal items.

The victim suffered abrasions to his knees and elbows and a bruised right eye, as well as a dislocated left shoulder. He was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital by ambulance, where he was treated and later released.

Inquiries are already underway into the incident, which has prompted the Police to offer safety advice to anyone accosted at night in this way.

?I would advise people not to stop, but instead go to some place where it?s well-lit such as a gas station or other public place where there are other people present and it would be safer to stop,? said a spokesman.

Anyone who witnessed the incident, or who has information that could help the Police should contact the Hamilton CID on 295-0011.