Crime

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...

Major Mahama ‘killers’ sent to Nsawam

The Central District Magistrate Court has remanded all accused persons who are being held for the murder of Major Adams Mahama into prisons custody. The...

Over 100 suspected criminals nabbed over local gin

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested 117 suspected criminals in Alaba, Tinka, Asafo, BB, TUC, Mayanka and surrounding areas in the Ashanti Region....

22-year-old miner convicted for defilement

A 22-year-old small scale miner who defiled a Junior High School girl aged fifteen has been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in hard labour...

PHOTO: How I killed my husband asleep after sex – Wife

A 39 year old mother of three identified as Omotayo Salawudeen has confessed to killing her husband in Oshogbo, in Osun state. Omotayo, who said...

Two NYEP Beneficiaries cited for fraud

Two beneficiaries of the Youth Employment Agency in the West Akyem Municipal Assembly of the Eastern Region, are being investigated for fraud. Shaibu Zuhari and...

Suspect who killed his son for money ritual remanded

The Asankrangwa District Magistrate Court in the Wassa Amenfi West District of the Western Region has adjourned the case of Abdul Salam, the man...

Suspected sex worker murdered at Teshie brothel

A young lady suspected to be a sex worker has been murdered at Teshie in Accra. The deceased was found lying in a pool of...