Crime

26-year-old trader jailed for stealing television set

A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a 26-year- old trader to five years imprisonment for stealing a television set at Kronum-Kwapra in the Suame...

I rape minors to ease tension – 18-year-old rape suspect

The Niger state police command has arrested and paraded a suspected rapist identified as Mizanbilu Yusuf, for defiling si minors in the state.  Yusuf, 18,...

14 arrested in joint police, military swoop in Tamale

Police in the Northern regional capital of Tamale in collaboration with the military have arrested 14 persons suspected to be drug peddlers in that...

Man kills himself in cocoa farm after fight with wife

A 48-year-old man, Yaw Bempong, has allegedly committed suicide after a misunderstanding with his wife. The incident happened at Alotoso, a farming community in the Atewa East District...

Robbery victim guns down robber

A suspected armed robber, who was part of a three-man gang, was shot dead when the gang tried to hold up a prisons officer...

Photos: Teenager, girlfriend in police grips over alleged stabbing of Uber driver

A 19-year-old John Kyei Baffour and his 22-year-old girlfriend, Beatrice Naa Korley, have been put in police custody at Dodowa for allegedly strangling and...

Photo: Lamborghini stolen in Switzerland found in Ghana with Nigerian number plate

Luxury Rental Benelux, a car rental company, claims a Lamborghini car belonging to a friend has been stolen. The car rental company posted on...

New twist in Kasoa police ‘killers’ case

Another person — suspected to have aided Eric Kojo Dua in the murder of two police officers at Buduburam near Kasoa in the Central...

Robbers burgle Tema DVLA office

The Deputy Director of the Public Relations unit of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Mr Kwaku Darko Afari, has confirmed to Class...

Murdered police woman trial: 3 suspects freed

Based on the advice of the Attorney General’s Department, the Tamale Magistrate Court has discharged three out of the six accused persons in the...

‘Evangelist’, four others nabbed for robbery at Peki

The Volta Regional Police Command has arrested five out of six suspects in connection with a robbery attack on Kings Oil Filling Station at...

Listen: Why govt will fail to prove treason charge against ‘coup plotters’

Government will find it very difficult to prove the treason charge against alleged coup plotters, lawyer for the suspects, Kojoga Adawudu has said. He explained...

Two arrested for allegedly causing bees to disrupt Ghana Card registration

Two people are in the custody of the Bimbilla police for allegedly causing a swarm of bees to disrupt the Ghana Card registration process...

Driver remanded for defiling and impregnating minor

A Circuit Court in Accra has remanded into lawful custody Abubakar Issifu Sadik, a driver, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old girl at...

Ocultist arrested for allegedly killing his aunt

The Sege police last Sunday arrested 24 year old Isaiah Tetteh Sebbie at Goi, a suburb of Sege, for allegedly butchering his aunt for...

‘Coup plotters’ charged with treason felony

State prosecutors have charged nine persons with treason felony for allegedly engaging in an “elaborate plot targeted at the Presidency”. They are Dr Frederick Yao...

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...