Crime

Marwako 'pepper man' found guilty of assault

The Abeka District Court in Accra has found the Abelemkpe Branch Manager of Marwako Restaurant, Jihad Chaaban guilt of assault and causing harm. According to...

Fisherman jailed 10-years for defilement

A 19-year-old fisherman, Edward Quansah who defiled a four-year-old girl was on Monday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Circuit Court in Cape...

Breaking News: Marwako Pepper Man jailed

Abelemkpe Mawarko branch manager Jihad Chabaan, who is standing trial for assaulting a caterer at the restaurant, has been found guilty of assault and...

Two in court for robbery

Two persons were on Tuesday, August 1, remanded by an Accra Circuit Court on the charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, attempting to...

Court sentences man to 12 years imprisonment for manslaughter

A 24-year old man standing trial in a manslaughter case has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by the Kumasi High Court Four, presided...

Hospital staff arrested for allegedly stealing GH¢50,000 worth of medical equipment

Medical Superintendent of the New Abirem Government Hospital, Dr Alexander Osei Bonsu, has been arrested for allegedly stealing medical equipment valued at GH¢50,000 belonging...

2,228 slabs of marijuana impounded on UG site

The Eastern Regional police have impounded 33 fertilizer sacks containing 2, 228 slabs of compressed substance suspected to be Indian hemp at Kpong ready...

PHOTO: Woman beheads daughter at Ankaase

A 45-year-old woman, Akosua Agyeiwaa has allegedly beheaded her 4-year-old daughter at Ankaase in the Bosome-Freho district of the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred on...

Photos: Killers of 'Facebook queen' arrested

Police at Dome-Kwabenya in Accra have arrested four boys in connection to the gruesome murder of a Facebook queen, Lydia Ama Serwa, aka DC...

Businessman jailed 35 years for defiling daughter/granddaughter

A 56-year old businessman accused of defiling his own daughter and granddaughter has been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by the Kumasi-based Gender and...

Chainsaw operator jailed for stealing mobile phone

A Techiman Circuit Court presided over by His Honor Abraham Graham has sentenced a Chainsaw Operator David Owusu to 10 year’s imprisonment for stealing...

Suspected armed robber remanded at Tarkwa

An eighteen-year-old unemployed man who attacked two women and robbed them at Kamaso junction, near Sureso at Asankragwa has appeared before a Tarkwa Circuit...

PHOTO: Fake doctor fined, in default seven years’ imprisonment

A fake doctor who applied to work as a medical practitioner at the Owusu Memorial Hospital in Sunyani, the Brong Ahafo regional capital, has...

Businessman jailed for defiling daughter and granddaughter

A 56-year-old businessman accused of defiling his own daughter and granddaughter has been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by the Kumasi-based Gender and Violence...

PHOTO: 5 robbers bag 75 years prison term

The Aflao Circuit Court has sentenced five persons, who robbed two mobile money operators at Dzelukope-Alata in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region,...

Kente weaver defiles girl, 13

A 30-year-old kente weaver is standing trial at the Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl. Raymond Seyram is said to have gone...

AG begs for time to investigate JB ‘killers’

State prosecutors have asked for more time for further investigations into the case involving the suspected killers of Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, the New Patriotic...

Boy, 15, stabs classmate

Police in Krofrom, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region are urging for public support to arrest a fifteen year JHS 2 student,...

JHS student stabbed to death by colleague

A junior high school student, Elijah Namon is in the grip of the police for allegedly stabbing his classmate to death. The deceased, 20-year-old Matthew...

24-year-old sentenced to death

A Kumasi High Court presided over by Justice Charles Adjei Wilson has sentenced a 24-year-old tea seller and a mother of one to death...

God is my lawyer – Major Mahama’s phone thief

One of the suspected killers of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, who was said to have stolen the mobile phone of the military officer after...

Physically challenged; One other arrested for armed robbery in Kumasi

The Manhyia divisional police command in the Ashanti region has arrested two suspects for attempting to rob a taxi driver on Sunday, July 23,...

13 ‘fake security officers’ arrested on Afloa border

Police in the Volta Region have arrested 13 persons at Aflao believed to be attacking people crossing the border to Togo. The arrest during the...

Rashida Black Beauty arrested

2016 Jigwe Award winner, Rashidatu Mohammed whose controversial video popularized the term 'malafaka' has been arrested by police in Berekum in the Brong Ahafo...

Teacher arrested for 'aborting' pregnancy for student

A teacher is in the grips of the police after he reportedly gave a student he impregnated, a concoction to drink in order to...

Man arrested for stealing car

A 29-Year-Old man has been arrested by the police for allegedly stealing a Toyota Corolla saloon car at Agbogba, a suburb of Accra. Sulley Haruna...

Two armed robbers jailed 20 years

Two armed robbers from Bogoso in the Prestea Huni/Valley district have been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment each by a Circuit Court in Tarkwa. Baba...

Tema Police impounds 175 vehicles, motor bikes

The Tema Regional Police Command has arrested and impounded a total of 175 unregistered motorbikes and vehicles in the Tema Metropolis and Ashaiman Municipality. The...

Galamsey boy jailed 22 years for robbery

Abu Tulasi, a young man working as a galamseyer (illegal miner) who pleaded guilty to robbing a gold dealer of GH?3,100, digital scale valued...

Afoko killed Mahama Adams – Prosecution witness

A third prosecution witness in the trial of Gregory Afoko, Mr Azigri Quinn, yesterday confirmed to the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court...

Woyome ordered to produce documents on house

The Supreme Court has ordered Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome to furnish the court with the property details of his Abelemkpe residence, which he claims...

Military officer busted for blackmailing SHS graduate for sex

A Warrant Officer has been arrested for attempting to blackmail a 17-year-old to having sex with him. WOI Asiedu after persuading the teenager to send...

Metro Mass employee charged with stealing

A vulkaniser, Patrick Salifu, aged 37 and an employee of the Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMTL) at its Sunyani Depot was on Thursday arraigned...

5 Boys jailed 150 years for robbery

Five armed robbers have been jailed a total of 150 years with hard labour by the Ashaiman circuit court in the Greater Accra Region. They...

Fresh charges for Volta Separatist Group

The Attorney General (AG) on Wednesday filed a motion in court to drop the charge of treason felony and conspiracy to commit same against...

Metro Mass staff caught with stolen battery

A vulcanizer with Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Depot in Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo Region, has been arrested for allegedly stealing one of the batteries...

PHOTO: Salaga police arrest 15 persons with ‘wee’

The East Gonja District Police Command of the Ghana police service has arrested 15 persons in possession of dried leaves suspected to be Indian...

Hot audio: Widow of slain police man cry for help

Wife of late Constable Daniel Owusu, the police officer shot by armed robbers during a car theft at La Paz in Accra is appealing...

PHOTO: ‘Man of God’ in police grips for scamming 4,000 people

A self-acclaimed man of God at the centre of a multi-faceted scam that has rocked the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis has been arrested by police. Scores of...

Photos: Man arrested for posing a woman to seduce men

A 19-year-old man has been arrested for dressing like a woman and allegedly luring men into homosexuality at Kanengo in Central Malawi. The suspect, Van...