Crime

Awudome cemetery robber busted

The Kaneshie Police have arrested a 25-year-old man alleged to be part of a syndicate that has been terrorizing passengers who ply the Awudome...

Robbers who bathed mobile money vendor with acid jailed 20 years each

Two young men, Daniel Amoah and Yaw Danso, who robbed and bathed Kate Aidoo, a 23- year-old mobile money vendor with acid at Gomoa...

Woman, 34, murdered in Agona Swedru

A 34-year-old woman was last Wednesday evening murdered in a bush at Agona Swedru in the Central region. The deceased, a Sobolo seller, who has...

43-year-old mechanic jailed 5 years for beating up police officers

Forty-three-year-old Noah Abe will spend five years in jail for beating up police officers on duty. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Yahaya Salifu, Ashaiman Divisional Police Command, told the Ashaiman Circuit...

Fake nurse jailed 22 months

A 33-year-old dismissed nurse trainee of the Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Sekondi, in the Western region has been slapped with a 22-month jail...

Man kills brother, runs to police for fear of being lynched

A 48-year-old man, Tetteh Akagbo has sought refuge at the Aflao District Command of the Ghana Police Service following attempts to lynch him after...

Three granted bail for stealing

An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail in sum of ¢320,000.00 each to three persons; James Sackey, Larrou Ali and Richard Asiedu Larbi for...

Afoko’s detention an injury to rule of law- Xavier Sosu

Human Rights lawyer, Francis Xavier Sosu has described the appeal to quash Gregory Afoko’s bail granted by an Accra High Court as disappointing and...

Afoko pleads not guilty to murder charges

Gregory Afoko has pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit murder and murder.  Asabke Alangdi, a butcher has also been handed same...

Photos+Audio: Suspected thief lynched after stabbing food seller at Kasoa

A young man, believed to be in his thirties, has been lynched by angry residents at Kasoa Akweley in the Central region after he...

Mother buries newly born baby alive

The Eastern Regional Police has arrested Jenifer Badu, 18 for allegedly burying her newly born baby boy alive in a bush at Owodokum near...

56-year-old farmer granted bail for fraudulent transaction

A 56-year-old farmer has been granted a GH?30,000.00 bail by the Kumasi Metropolitan Court for fraudulent transaction. Opanin Kwaku Agyei pleaded not guilty to the...

Police appeal for public assistance to catch Tema fuel station robbers

Police have launched a manhunt for three robbers who attacked a Shell fuel station at the Tema Motorway Roundabout on Sunday. According to a statement...

Robbers strike on Tarkwa-Takoradi highway

A 52-seater Daewoo commercial bus with registration number GM-1755-16 was allegedly attacked by armed robbers on the Tarkwa-Takoradi Highway. The bus with the inscription ‘Immaculate...

‘Susu’ operator remanded for defrauding customers

A 29-year-old ‘Susu’ operator who defrauded a number of traders and mechanics at Adoato and South Suntreso, both suburbs of Kumasi, and went into...

Ex-convict back to jail for stealing

A 45-year-old ex-convict who stole three perfumes from a shop at a filling station in Kumasi, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by...

Court remands driver, mate in alleged fuel tanker arson case

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a tanker driver and his mate who are alleged to have set a diesel tanker ablaze in a...

Farmer in trouble for threatening ex-lover

The Enchi District Magistrate court has convicted to a fine a thirty-four-year-old farmer, Kwaw Kwadu, GHs 1,200 for threatening to kill his ex-lover on...

Canadian Kidnappers trial adjourned to July 29

An Accra High Court hearing the case involving eight persons accused of kidnapping two Canadian girls has adjourned the matter to July 29, 2019. The court adjourned...

Rawlings’ dispatch rider shot, suffers broken arm

Sgt. Atsu Sekey, the regular police dispatch rider of former President Jerry John Rawlings narrowly escaped death at the hands of suspected robbers last...

Domestic violence on the increase in Central Region

The Central Region has over the past two years recorded an increase in domestic violence. Mrs Thywill Eyra Kpe, Central Regional Director of the Department of Gender,...

Daylight robbery at Tema filling station

Two armed robbers stormed a filling station at Tema Motorway and made away with their sales and other valuables in what could be described...

Plumber remanded for illegally possessing cannabis

A 22-year-old plumber has been remanded into police custody by a Kumasi Circuit Court for illegally possessing dried leaves suspected to be cannabis. Danlad Duke...

3 nabbed over ¢950,000 scam

Three alleged fraudsters who duped 50 people in the erstwhile Brong Ahafo Region a total amount of ¢950,000 under the pretext of recruiting them...

Afoko’s bail rescinded by another judge

An Accra High Court has rescinded the bail granted alleged murderer of NPP Upper East Regional Chairman, Adams Mahama. This follows an application made...

Teenager killed in motor crash

A 19-year-old teenager, Charles Jacob, has met his untimely death after a Hyundai Accent saloon car run over him at Kwamenakrom in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem...

Robbers attack commercial bus on Tarkwa-Takoradi Highway

A fifty-two seater Daewoo commercial bus with registration number GM-1755-16 was allegedly attacked by armed robbers on the Tarkwa-Takoradi Highway. The bus with the inscription...

Photos: 23 in critical conditions in Gomoa Mpota accident

Twenty three passengers are in critical conditions at the Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital after a ghastly accident at Gomoa Mpota junction on the...

Photo: 3 men jailed 19 years each for possessing narcotic drugs

The Tamale high court presided over by His Worship Justice Richard Kogyapwah has sentenced three persons to 19 years in prison custody for...

Audio: Rabies outbreak kills 2 at Kasoa

A rabies infected dog has reportedly killed two people at Kasoa as 70 others battle for their lives in various hospitals in the Awutu Senya East...

120 Suspects remanded over Dagomba Line land dispute

The Asokore Mampong Magistrate Court has remanded 120 people in connection with clashes over a disputed land at Dagomba Line in Kumasi. This was after...

Manager granted bail for defaulting in SSNIT payments

The Hohoe Magistrate Court has granted bail to Mr Folley Frank, General Manager of Heritage FM Limited, a local radio station in Hohoe, in...

Woman, 24, murdered in Koforidua

A 24-year-old businesswoman has been murdered by an unknown assailant in a bush behind the SDA Education Unit Office along the Kasadjan road in...

2 dead as land dispute turns ugly in Kumasi

Two persons have been confirmed dead following clashes between scrap dealers and some people claiming to be indigenes of Aboabo in Kumasi, over the ownership of...

NAM1 allegedly defrauded 16,000 customers of ¢1.68bn

Chief Executive of defunct gold dealership firm Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah has been dragged to court for allegedly defrauding 16,000 customers of more than...

Drop charges against NAM 1, we want our money – Lawyer to police (Audio)

Even before embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah was processed for court on Friday, legal practitioner and political...

Just in: Court remands NAM 1

Embattled Menzgold Chief Executive Officer, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1, has been remanded by a Circuit Court in Accra. NAM1,...

Takoradi girls kidnappers trial starts

For the first time, the two suspected Nigerian kidnappers of the three Takoradi girls have appeared in court for their long-awaited trial to commence. The...

Woman who poured acid on business rival at Akyem Oda granted bail

The 33-year-old woman who allegedly poured acid on her business rival at Akyem Oda has been granted a GH¢20,000 bail with two sureties to...

EOCO recovers close to ¢100m from criminal activities

The Economic and organised Crime Office (EOCO) has recovered ¢99,165,369.29 being proceeds of crime between 2014 and March 2019. Commissioner of Police (COP) Frank Adu-Poku (Rtd.),...