Crime

Ato Essien, 3 others charged over Capital Bank collapse

Founder of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien and three others; Tetteh Nettey, Fitzgerald Odonkor and Kate Quartey Papafio, have been charged over the...

Thief expresses shock in court over his stealing prowess

A mobile phone thief, Richard Appiah, alias Paa Kwesi, who on Monday said he could not fathom how he stole about 24 mobile phones...

Court acquits Dr Obengfo

The Accra Circuit Court Four on Tuesday acquitted Dr Dominic Kwame Obeng-Andoh, the Proprietor of the Obengfo Hospital, located at Weija in Accra. He was...

Farm labourer jailed for stealing two rams in Enchi

The Enchi District Magistrate court has sentenced a 29-year-old farm labourer to 18 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing two rams valued at...

‘Fetish Priest’ ‘kills’ aunt

A 24-year-old self-style fetish priest has been arrested by the Sege District Police Headquarters for allegedly butchering his aunt. The sad incident occurred at Goi,...

Photos+Audio: Man arrested over gruesome murder of friend at Budumburam

Charles Blankson, a 32-year-old man, has been arrested by the Kasoa Police command for allegedly kidnapping and killing his business partner and friend, Bright...

I paid back N1.1m loan “in kind”, woman tells court

A Lagos-based businesswoman, Ejioma Ahibafu, 49, on Monday told an Ojo Magistrates’ Court how she paid back “in kind” part of a N1.1 million...

13-year-old boy allegedly kills sister

A 13-year-old boy has allegedly shot his 8-year-old little sister dead at Mamponteng in the Kwabre East municipality of the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred...

Police releases 13 persons for ‘demonstrating illegally’

The Accra Regional Police Command has released 13 persons who were arrested on Monday October 7, for embarking on an illegal demonstration. “At about 0830hours,...

38-year-old woman dies after giving birth to triplets

Grandmother of eight children, Mary Akosua Korankyewaa has given a chilling account of events leading to the death of her only daughter, Adwoa...

How 16-year-old was dragged into forest and defiled by two SHS boys

“I struggled with them until I became too weak to fight. One of them squeezed my breast and I really felt pain in it....

Armed men open fire on mourners, kill one

A group of suspected armed robbers last weekend attacked some mourners on a road between Mansra and Old Longoro in the Kintampo North Municipality...

Video: 15-year-old defiled by step-father paralyzed after giving birth

A 15-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually abused by her stepfather, in a village at the outskirts of Mankranso in the Ashanti Region, has...

Watch: Man confesses to killing mother because she refused to find him a wife

A 27-year-old taxi driver Samuel Ameku who was arrested for killing his mother at Kwesimintim in the Western Region has confessed to the police...

Audio: Man, 19, arrested for selling ‘fake honey’ to police in Obuasi

Police in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region has arrested a 19-year-old man identified as Joshua Ofori, for selling 'fake honey' in Obuasi and its...

Six dead, 15 injured in Sege road accident

Six persons died instantly including both drivers while 15 sustained various degrees of injury, when two vehicles crashed head-on, on the Tema-Aflao road on Friday,...

Police officers reject GHS16K bribe, arrest two for carrying 113 parcels of ‘wee’

The owner and driver of Kia Rhino truck with registration number GS 5491-13 were on Friday, 4 October 2019 arrested by a Police Highway...

Police rescue suspected mobile money scammer from angry mob

A mobile money vendor was on Friday afternoon swindled by a suspected scammer of GH¢2,761 at Adabraka, near the Roxy Cinema in Accra. The victim,...

I’ve been ‘treated like a common criminal’ – Military officer in ‘coup plot’

The senior military officer, Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli, who is being held together with others for allegedly plotting to destabilise Ghana, has expressed disgust...

Photos+Audio: Taxi driver kills mother; stabs sister

A taxi driver, believed to be in his early twenties and identified only as Mawuli, on Friday morning stabbed his mother to death while...

Photos+Audio: Man stabs friend to death with iron rod over fish

Kweku Anu, a resident of Gomoa Kweikrom in the Central region, has allegedly stabbed to death with an iron rod his 38-year-old friend, Kenneth Arhin after...

Family of man tortured in police custody heads to court

The family of Dodzie Aglebe, the man who was tortured by two police officers in a viral video, has vowed to take legal action...

Arrest drivers who use minors as mates – MTTD

The Divisional Commander of the Kaneshie Motor, Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Elvis Sadongo, has...

Ghanaian fraudster with details of 35,000 bank cards jailed

A fraudster from London who went on luxury holidays abroad after harvesting details from thousands of bank customers has been sentenced to two years...

Ritualist’s death sparks rumours of mass human sacrifice

Mass hysteria is sweeping through the East Ada community of Dzetrokorpe after the unannounced death of a known ritual killer circulated in town sparking...

Two robberies claim one life and casualties at Kasseh

A forty-five-year-old man, Amartey Otipeseku, was on Thursday early morning clubbed to death at Kasseh by armed robbers. Mr Jonas Otipeseku, brother of the...

Photos: Iron door chokes thief to death

A 23-year-old suspected thief met his untimely death when he was trapped by an iron door while attempting to steal from a shop. READ: Teachers...

30 arraigned over exam malpractices

About 50 people have been apprehended for engaging in examination malpractices in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates which...

22-year-old man jailed for defiling 14-year-old girl

A Koforidua Circuit Court presided by Justice Mrs. Marian Afoh, has convicted a 22 year old man, Isaac Kwaku Asiamah to seven years imprisonment...

Murder: Ghanaian stabs Ghanaian to death in Europe

A Ghanaian resident in Spain has allegedly killed another Ghanaian in a meat factory where they both work. The happening was made known to the Ghanaian...

Audio: Police react to K’dua brutality

The Eastern Regional Police Command has condemned in no uncertain terms the assault of a suspect by personnel at the Koforidua Railway Police Station. Eastern...

Soldier arrested over alleged assault of policewoman

Lance Corporal Annan Agoe, a military officer with service number 194663, has been arrested by the Nungua Divisional Police Command for allegedly assaulting a...

K’dua police brutality: Father of suspect begs for interdicted officers [audio]

Father of the 28-year-old young man assaulted by two policemen at Koforidua Railway Police Station in the Eastern region is begging for clemency for...

Video: Suspected robbers arrested in Salaga; one on the run

Police in Salaga in the East Gonja District of the Savannah Region have arrested two suspected armed robbers with AK47 assault rifle while they...

Washing Bay attendant jailed for sex with minor

A washing bay attendant has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl at Glefe,...

Watch: This video of Koforidua police brutalizing suspect will break your heart

A disturbing video of some Koforidua Railway Police Station personnel brutalizing a suspect in their custody has emerged and is causing extreme anger on social media. The...

Father of two stabbed to death in front of his children

A father of two has been stabbed to death in front of his children, police have said. Christopher Nicol, 27, was stabbed in his flat...

Man flees after allegedly murdering wife

The Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regional Police Command are searching for Kwaku Afurumu for allegedly murdering his wife, Afua Florence, 36, on Thursday...

Rescue mission gone bad as Tadi kidnapped girl look-alike spotted

A 35-year-old Takoradi based taxi driver was nearly lynched after he was hired by four persons to go and rescue one of the kidnapped...

18-year-old to spend 15 years in prison for robbery

An 18-year old, Abubakar Sidick, would for the next 15 years spend his life at the Nsawam prisons for robbing a man of his...