Crime

AUDIO: Stop lying to us – Family of alleged robber tells police

The family of one of seven alleged armed robbers gunned down by police in the Ashanti region has accused the Ashanti Regional Police of...

VIDEO: Man curses AMA taskforce for alleged overcharging

A commercial (trotro) driver has cursed the Accra Metropolitan Assembly taskforce for allegedly charging him GHc150 instead of GHc40 for a road offence. He says he...

Court jails unemployed seven years for defilement

Ben Dorgbetor, 22, unemployed, has been jailed seven years by an Aflao Circuit Court for defiling a Kindergarten two pupil, aged six. He pleaded guilty. Mr....

Police yet to identify suspected robbers killed

The Ashanti Regional Police Command is yet to identify the seven alleged robbers gunned down by the police in a shootout at Poano, in...

PHOTO: 3 allegedly rob Chinese master, set house ablaze

Personnel of the Commercial Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested three persons suspected to have attacked and robbed their Chinese...

3 of Manso ‘armed robbers’ my campaign team members -Asokore MCE (AUDIO)

The Municipal Chief Executive for Askore-Mampong, Alhaji Alidu Seidu has disclosed that three of the seven suspected armed robbers killed in a shootout at...

Obuasi: Snail-hunting teens shot after they were ‘mistaken’ for thieves

Police in Obuasi have arrested a man who claimed he mistook four boys who had gone on snail hunting as robbers, and shot them. Two...

Fulani herdsman allegedly kills his 70-year-old wife

The Police at Prang in the Pru West District of Brong-Ahafo Region seeking to arrest a Fulani herdsman, Umaru Gariba, alias Burger, who allegedly...

Three before court for beating up a cabbie

Three persons have been given a GH¢20,000.00 bail with one surety each by an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly beating up a taxi driver. All...

Palm wine tapper jailed 10 years for stealing

A 23-year-old palm wine tapper who broke into the rooms of two persons resident at Obogu in the Asante-Akim South Municipality stealing some cash...

PHOTOS: Pastor sustains multiple wounds during fight at drinking bar

A 32-year-old man, Yaw Opoku has inflicted multiple knife wounds on a 79-year-old pastor of African Faith Tabernacle Church, Odeefo Adu Koli for refusing to drink...

AUDIO+PHOTOS: Snail hunters mistakenly shot for being robbers

Four teenagers have been mistakenly shot by a hunter at Ahansonyewodea, a suburb of Obuasi, in Ashanti Region in the early hours of Tuesday. The...

Wee tops remand cases at Sunyani prison

Statistics from prisons across the country have indicated that Sunyani Prison is second to none in terms of Indian hemp related cases, whilst the...

AUDIO:  Sodomised boy may have been influenced – Headmistress claims

Headmistress of the Royal International School, Priscilla Manu Gyebi has dismissed sodomy allegations levelled against three pupils of the school. A class one pupil of the school...

Armed robber, land guard grabbed at Kasoa

The Kasoa Ofaakor district police command headed by DSP Christopher Dakey, has arrested Asafoatse Musah Razark also known as "Atwa", a suspected land guard...

5-year-old boy brutalized by step mother over damaged pen drive

Pressure is mounting on Domestic Violence and Victim Support Department (DOVVSU) to prosecute a stepmother for brutally assaulting a minor over a damaged pen...

Teacher remanded over countless sex with JHS leaver

A 42 year old teacher has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly having countless sexual intercourse with a 15 year old...

Driver’s mate jailed ten years for defilement

A 23 year old driver’s mate has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for defiling a seven year old...

Court sentences sexy woman killer over sex

A 35-year-old farmer who killed a woman for refusing him sex has been sentenced to death by the Tamale High Court. The High Court, presided over...

AUDIO: 7-year-old paralyzed after being sodomized by 3 boys

A seven-year-old-boy is fighting for his life after being allegedly sodomized by three boys in school. The boy (name withheld) who is currently on admission...

AUDIO: Budumburam residents live in fear after “wee” smokers allegedly kill soldier

The chiefs and people of Budumburam Liberia Camp in the Gomoa East district of the Central Region say they are living in fear after...

8 suspected robbers arrested at the border at Aflao

Eight persons, believed to be members of a criminal group involved in robbing travellers on the Ghana-Togo border, have been rounded up in an...

Teenager jailed seven years for defilement

Kwame Mensah, a 19-year old fisherman, arrested for defiling a 15-year old Junior High School girl at Elmina, was on Thursday jailed for seven...

AUDIO: ‘Wee smokers’ allegedly kill soldier

Unconfirmed reports say an unidentified military officer has been killed by some alleged “wee" smokers at Liberia Camp in the Gomoa East district on...

PHOTO: Two arrested for alleged murder of ‘Okada’ rider in Volta Region

The police have arrested a 26-year-old man, Emmanuel Tovor Akakpo, suspected to have murdered a commercial motorbike (okada) rider, Joseph Agbanu, aka Dokye, at...

I am the man in ‘Kitchen Stool’ leaked tape – Headmaster admits

The embattled Headmaster of Adumanu D/A Basic School in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District of the Central Region, Robert Sepey has admitted being the...

Five convicted for stealing and abetment of stealing

The Winneba Magistrate Court has bounded three juveniles to be of good behavior for six months for unlawful entering and conspiracy to commit crime...

A Ghanaian and a Nigerian nabbed for human trafficking

A Ghanaian and his Nigerian female friend, have been arrested by security agents in an attempt to traffic three girls to Nigeria at the...

Taxi driver convicted for dangerous driving

The Winneba District Magistrate Court has sentenced a 28 years old taxi driver to a fine of 480.00 Ghana Cedis for dangerous driving contrary...

PHOTOS+AUDIO: Jealous man pours acid on lover

Police in Awutu Breku in Awutu Senya district of the Central Region is hunting for a man believed to be in his late 30s. Kofi...

PHOTOS: Armed men gun down 1 police man; injure another at Manso Nkwanta

A crack team of police officers have been deployed to the Manso area in the Ashanti Region to help arrest a group of armed...

Farmer remanded for mistakenly shooting uncle

A 40-year-old farmer who mistook his uncle, Kwame Opoku Douglas, 44, for a game and shot him has been remanded to police custody. Alex Asante’s...

Court sentences man who killed woman for refusing him sex to death

A 35-year-old farmer, who killed a woman for refusing him sex, has been sentenced to death by the Tamale High Court. The High Court presided...

Pastor who allegedly raped 17-year-old student flees

The family of a 17-year-old Junior High School form two student has appealed to the general public to help apprehend a pastor who allegedly...

Two Guineans remanded for illegal mining

The Enchi District Magistrate court has remanded two Guinean nationals into police custody for engaging in illegal mining in the Tano-Ahwia forest reserves near...

VIDEO: GES condemns caning of KSTS student by teacher

The Ghana Education Service has launched investigations into an incident at the Kumasi Secondary Technical School in which a housemaster of the school caned...

Provide security clothes for your reporters – police to media owners

The Director of the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIS) Bureau, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye, has advised media owners to provide protective cloths for...

VIDEO: Angry youth vow to burn down police station after cop was caught allegedly sleeping with NPP executive’s lover

A group of irate youth in Sawla, in the Sawla-tuna-Kalba district of the Northern Region, has threatened to burn down the Sawla Police station. The...

Bedridden woman burns to death as fire razes teacher’s apartment

A bedridden elderly woman was Tuesday night burnt to death when fire razed a three-bedroom apartment she was sleeping in at Supomu Dunkwa, a...

Court quashes Francis Sosu’s three-year suspension

An Accra Human Rights Court has quashed the three-year suspension of renowned Lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu by the General Legal Council. The Court presided over by...