Crime

VIDEO: NPP’s Hajia Fati ‘punches’ Adom FM Journalist

Adom FM journalist, Ohemaa Sakyiwaa Ahwenepa was on Friday assaulted by popular NPP supporter Hajia Fati at the party headquarters.Haji Fati allegedly punched the...

Fake doctor busted

Officials of the Medical and Dental Council in collaboration with the Wapuli Police have apprehended a quack doctor by name Omega Timothy for allegedly...

Murder of Nigerian man at Kasoa: Police grab two suspects

The Kasoa District Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a Nigerian man, Shoot Ogani, at Kasoa on Wednesday.According...

Tramadol packaged as Indomie seized from smugglers in Volta Region

Boxes of drugs including Tramadol, the popularly abused prescribed-only pain relief, which were being smuggled into the country from Togo, have been confiscated by...

Man holds girl, 11, captive for sex

The taxi driver who allegedly held captive and defiled an 11-year-old girl for five days at Beach Comba, Nungua, has been granted bail in...

Teenage girl stabs boyfriend during sex

A teen interested in human sacrifice and sexual violence was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to...

Tamale: Two arrested for attacking a ‘wizard’

Two persons suspected to have been involved in the attack of a 60-year-old man they accused of witchcraft, have been arrested at Filling Point,...

Estate agent remanded over defilement

An Estate Agent has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly abducting and defiling a 15-year-old girl at Awudome Estates in Accra.Daniel...

Police gun down suspected robber at Kwabenya, others arrested

Officers from the Kwabenya District Police Command in the Greater Accra Region on Tuesday shot dead a suspected robber identified as Yaw Sarpong, and...

Prison officer turns prisoner for ‘wee distribution’

A prison officer, Abibula Nankpa, has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for possessing narcotic drugs.Abibula Nankpa, a Second Class Officer (2CO) attached to the...

AUDIO: 4 arrested over Bogoso shooting that left a police officer dead

Police in Tarkwa have arrested four suspects in connection with the killing of a police officer, Lance Corporal Duku Nicholas during a daylight robbery...

Police probes suspected murder of okada rider

Police in the Eastern Region have begun investigations into the death of a 16-year-old Okada rider at Abomosu in the Atiwa District of the...

Top Surgeon resigns for inappropriate relationships with patients

A top surgeon at New York University was forced to resign after being investigated for inappropriate relationships with patients, BuzzFeed News has learned.Mark Adelman...

Three arrested over alleged theft of Tano shrine

Three people have been arrested over alleged theft of the Tano shrine together with black stools and a quantity of gold dust belonging to...

Prison Officer jailed 13 years for smuggling Indian Hemp

A Second Class Officer with the Ghana Prisons Service, Abimlai Nankpa, has been jailed 13 years for unlawfully possessing Indian hemp at the premises...

17 robbers who posed as spiritualists arrested

The Manso Nkwanta Police Command in the Ashanti Region has arrested 17 persons suspected to be armed robbers.The suspects who allegedly attacked some residents...

Pregnant teenager raped; others brutalized by robbers at Budumbumram

Two teenagers, including a sixteen-year-old with eight-month pregnancy, were left severely traumatized after they were allegedly raped and robbed at gunpoint last Sunday.The two...

Five robbers arrested for snatching a woman’s handbag

A brave police officer, Tuesday morning apprehended five armed robbers at Kwabenya, in Accra.The robbers including a woman were on the run after they...

Police officer shoots man dead while arguing with okada rider

A middle-aged man was killed Friday morning by a stray bullet from the gun of a policeman at timber market, here in Accra. The deceased,...

AUDIO: 28 workers arrested over the shooting of police officer at Bogoso

Twenty-eight (28) workers of Plate and Plume Limited, an Indian company at Bogoso in the Western Region, are being interrogated by the Police in...

AUDIO+PHOTOS: Suspected thief beaten to pulp at Kasoa

A 20-year-old driver’s mate has received the beating of his life from some angry youth at Kasoa, near an ECG office in the Awutu...

Wisa Greid convicted for indecency

An Accra Circuit Court has fined Ghanaian artiste, Eugene Ashie popularly known as Wisa Greid, an amount of Ghc 8,400 with a default sentence...

Another Police Officer shot by robbers at Bogoso

Another police officer with the Tarkwa Divisional Police Command, Nicholas Duku,  has been shot dead by  four (4) masked armed men suspected to be...

Cop robber, accomplice busted

The Eastern Region Police has arrested a policeman and his civilian accomplice over a fuel filling station robbery that happened a month ago. Corporal Ghasty...

Man loses his car to robbers, finds police using it after 2 years

A thirty-two-year-old banker who was nearly killed by car snatchers found a police officer using the car he lost to the robbers two years later. Samuel...

130 suspected criminals arrested

The police in the Central Region has arrested 130 suspected criminals in a swoop at Gomoa Budumburam. The swoop was carried out at the crime-prone...

Man pours acid on wife

A man believed to be in his late forties has poured acid on his wife at Adukrom a suburb of Bibiani in the western...

PHOTOS: Teenage twins chopped up for 'stealing' GH¢ 200

The Wa Police in the Upper West region have arrested a 45-year-old mother and her son for inflicting deep cuts on her twin daughter,...

Fake Soldier jailed ten-years for possessing narcotic drugs

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced one Patrick Akoto, unemployed to ten years in prison for possessing a parcel of compressed narcotic drugs without...

Farmer commits suicide after butchering wife over sex

A 35-year old farmer has allegedly murdered his wife for refusing him sex for six months. Emmanuel Awudi is said to have carried out the...

Video: Mom beats 8-year-old daughter to death, hides body

A mother who beat her eight-year-old ailing daughter to death has been arrested by the police and currently being prepared for court. The Korle-Bu District...

Police grab student for housing a robber

A final year student of Asuansi Technical Institute and resident of Abakrampa in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District of the Central Region is in the grips...

Man jailed for threatening to kill father

A 24-year-old man has run into trouble with the law for threatening to kill his own father over a mobile phone. Yakubu Abukari was said...

AUDIO: Woman arrested for baby theft

A middle-aged woman has been arrested by the Wenchi Divisional Police Command for stealing a 40-days-old baby. Station Officer at the Domestic Violence and Victim...

Police reject GHC 2,000 bribe; arrests 2 robbers

Some New Weija-stationed Police Officers have arrested two Nigerien who are suspected to be armed robbers. The two, Malik Bashiru, 32, and Abdul Aziz Tahiru,...

PHOTO: Woman kills daughter

A 36-year-old woman, who allegedly assaulted her eight-year-old daughter to death and buried her at Lavenda Hill, near the Korle-Gonno beach, in Accra, has...

Major Mahama case: Ignore rumours; concentrate on evidence- Lawyer tells jury

An Accra High Court has successfully empanelled a seven-member jury to sit on a case in which an army officer Major Adam Mahama was...

AUDIO: Man suspected to be used-sanitary-pad thief beaten to pulp

A middle-aged man suffered severe beatings at the hands of traders at Kantamanto in Accra in the early hours of Wednesday for allegedly stealing...

Deadly church attack kills 19 including two priests

At least 19 people were killed Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at a church in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, police said. Two priests and 17 worshippers...

Police seize 15,790.81 grams of marijuana

The police at Juaso have seized 15,790.81 grams of marijuana at Asankare in the Asante-Akim South Municipality and arrested one man, Kwame Agyei. This large...