Crime

Audio: Two Canadian women kidnapped in Kumasi

Reports reaching Adomonline.com indicates that two Canadian women have been kidnapped by some unknown persons in Kumasi in the Ashanti region. Luv FM’s Erastus Asare...

Armed robbers attack Methodist priest

Armed robbers on Sunday invaded the manse of the Mount Sinai Methodist Church at New-Dawhenya and robbed the Circuit Minister and his family of...

Man rapes fowl; says a girlfriend is too expensive

Kevin Simonyi, a Kenyan man, was caught defiling the hen after its owner investigated the strange noises coming from the coop area. According to Kevin, his...

Suspect appears in court wearing clothes stolen from magistrate

Otuke. A trial magistrate of Otuke was on Thursday left speechless when a suspect appeared in court wearing his stolen clothes.  The magistrate was prompted to...

Level 100 UEW student allegedly commits suicide (Audio)

A level 100 male student of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has allegedly hanged himself at the North Campus of the school behind...

Photos: Tears flow as family exhumes body of murdered and secretly-buried 72-yr-old relative

The body of a 72-year-old woman, Patience Hushie, believed to have been murdered by her grandson, Shadrack Hushie, has been exhumed.  An Ashaiman district...

No sperm found on murdered GPHA official

The Ghana Police Hospital, which conducted a pathological analysis, found no sperms on the former Public Affairs and Marketing Manager of the Ghana Ports...

Photos: Goat thief tied and burnt alive in car boot by angry mob

A suspected thief, who was part of a gang that stole goats from Tenguanya near Klo Agogo, a farming community in the Eastern region, has...

Survivor of Dawhenya forex bureau robbery gives horrifying details of robbery

One of the survivors in Tuesday’s robbery at Dawhenya, Alhaji Yusuf Haruna has revealed that deceased, Alhaji Haruna Jafaru was killed over an $80,000.00...

Photo: 2 arrested with human skull

Two young men who are suspected to be involved in the trading of human parts have been arrested by police at Offinso in the...

Photos: Man killed after separating fight between friend and wife

A 35-year-old man, identified as Miller, is on the run after he allegedly slashed the neck of 49-year-old Azure Ayardako leading to his death...

‘Killer driver’ fined GH¢1,200

A man who "carelessly" knocked and killed a 35-year-old woman with a car at Weija in Accra has been fined GHc1,200 by the Weija...

Unemployed, 29, remanded for rape and theft

Dawn rpt Dawn Yram Zaney, 29, unemployed, has been remanded into prison custody by a Ho Circuit Court for allegedly stealing and raping a...

Anyone who jumps red light is either ‘mad or a criminal’ – COP Kofi Boakye

The Director-General of Police in charge of Research and Planning, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye, has called for strict enforcement of road traffic regulations in...

Takoradi carjackers jailed 24 years

A Takoradi Circuit Court presided over by Justice Aboagye Tandoh has sentenced two persons who attacked a taxi driver and snatched his car from...

Health of 13-yr-old girl defiled by 2 men deteriorates – Family

The family of the 13-year-old girl allegedly defiled by two people, including Odikro of Freso in the Bosome Freho District of Ashanti Region, says...

Farmer jailed for stealing at ‘Akpeteshie’ bar

A 24-year-old farmer who stole money and a mobile phone from an ‘Akpeteshie’, (a locally brewed gin) bar at Odumase, near Tepa, has been...

5 arrested for forcibly removing Krachi West DCE

The Volta Regional Police Command has arrested five persons involved in the disturbances at the office premises of the District Chief Executive for Krachi...

Paper Citizens: 3 staff of Births & Deaths Registry interdicted

The Births and Deaths Registry has suspended three of its staff following a Joy News documentary that found some officials charge unapproved fees from applicants. Registrar,...

Video: Crippled men rob bank at gunpoint

Three crippled armed robbers have been caught on camera as they rob a bank and hold people hostage. These men were seen entering the banking...

Audio: Woman slashes boy for questioning why she dumped refuse in open space

A 13-year-old-boy, who had his cheeks slashed with a blade by 23-year-old Maame Afua at Twifo Praso in the Twifo Atti-Morkwa District of the...

Audio: Highway robbers rob passengers; flee with one car at Potsin junction

Three commercial vehicles and commuters have been robbed by eight highway robbers at Tonisco near Potsin junction on the Kasoa Cape Coast highway in...

Photos: One dead after daylight robbery on Tema-Aflao highway

A man has been shot dead after armed robbers attacked him on the Tema-Aflao highway.  On Tuesday, two gunmen trailing the deceased are said...

Physically-challenged, one other, jailed total of 22 years

Two persons including a physically-challenged one who conspired to rob a bread seller at knife point, at Bantama in Kumasi, have been sentenced to...

Woman arrested in failed ritual murder

The Police in Osenase, a community near Akwatia in the Eastern region have arrested a 32-year-old seamstress known as Humu Iddrisu for allegedly conspiring...

Security guard jailed for threatening to kill former minister

A former security guard at the State Enterprise Commission has been jailed two years by the Accra Circuit Court for threatening to kill the...

Student gets 20 years for robbery

A 19-year-old student, who attacked and robbed a nurse of her handbag, inflicting knife wounds on her at Tikrom, near Ejisu, has been jailed...

Painter strangles grandmother; buries body in uncompleted building

A 22-year-old man, Shadrack Hushie, who allegedly murdered his grandmother and buried her at the backyard of their house at Zenu, in the Kpone...

Police officer who killed 15-yr-old boy sentenced to 15 years

A Texas jury sentenced a former police officer to 15 years in prison Wednesday night for the shooting to death of an unarmed African-American...

Two Ghanaian drivers killed in terrorist attack near Burkina Faso

Two Ghanaian truck drivers were reportedly killed in a terrorist attack near the Burkina-Faso border on Thursday while transporting floor tiles from the Takoradi Port to...

22 prostitutes, 75 others arrested at Odawna railway

A total of 97 suspected criminals have been arrested around the Odaw railway station in Accra. They include 22 women who were alleged to be...

Chokosi-Kokomba conflict: Two jailed 10 years

Two people have been sentenced to a total of 10 years imprisonment in connection with the Chokosis and Konkomba clash in the Chereponi and...

Lower Manya chaos: Father of deceased, residents narrate ordeal (Audio)

Wilfred Sam Partey, father of a young man identified as Thomas Partey Nartey who lost his life in a clash between the Police and...

Police suspicion leads to arrest of 3 laptops, phone thieves

Three men have been arrested by the Assin Fosu Police patrol team in the Central region for allegedly stealing valuable items worth thousands of...

Lower Manya chaos: 35 arrested, 100 police personnel deployed

Thirty-five people have been arrested in the Lower Manya Municipality in the Eastern region following a clash between police and some youth in the...

E/R: Youth, Police clash over PDS disconnection exercise, the inside story

Some Irate youth at Manya Kpongunor in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern region on Wednesday clashed with the police in the...

Collapse of seven banks – 50 Directors, owners face court

The receivers of the seven failed banks have started legal proceedings against 50 directors and shareholders for their roles in the collapse of the...

Two in police grips for robbery

The Ho Municipal Police Command has arrested two suspects, Emmanuel Akaboah, 32, and Sefadzi Ameviwogbe, 34, for conspiracy to commit crime and robbery. The third...

Ex-convict ‘murders’, secretly buries 72-yr-old grandmother

A 22-year-old ex-convict has been remanded for allegedly murdering and secretly burying his 72-year-old grandmother, Patience Hushie.  The sad incident is said to have taken place last month...

More details emerge about bribe-grabbing Policeman

The Central Regional Police Command has detained Sergeant Kwaku Owusu Ansah, the Police Officer captured in a viral video allegedly taking money from a...