Crime

Court issues bench warrant against administrator in $50,000 fraud case

An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the arrest of a 36-year-old administrator for allegedly defrauding a businessman of $50,000. This came after it issued the bench...

Pragya rider who knocked teacher, crashed soldier convicted

The Asante Bekwai Circuit Court has convicted a tricycle rider (Pragya) who knocked down a female teacher and crashed a soldier who intervened. The Court...

Expedite investigations into killing of ‘Jirapa Dubai’ CEO – Youth group demands

The Jirapa Area Youth and Development Association (JAYDA), has called on investigative agencies to expedite its probe into the killing of the Chief Executive...

Hajia4Real pleads guilty in $2m romance scam case

Ghanaian social media personality Mona Faiz Montrage, popularly known as Hajia4Real, has pleaded guilty in the $2m romance scam case in the United States...

2 arrested for robbing Awutu Winton SHS students during games

Two people have been apprehended by the Awutu Bereku District Police Command for allegedly robbing students of Awutu Winton Senior High School (SHS). The suspects...

J.B. Danquah case: 2 charged for conspiracy to commit robbery and murder

Two individuals implicated in the murder of the late Abuakwa North MP, Joseph Boakye (J.B.) Danquah-Adu has been charged before the High Court for...

Daniel Asiedu killed J.B. Danquah Adu – Investigator states in Court

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Retired Daniel Nkrumah, an investigator, has told an Accra High Court that Daniel Asiedu, aka Sexy Dondon, murdered former...

JB Danquah’s trial: Lawyer for suspect accuse Police of withholding critical information 

Lawyer for Daniel Aseidu, the man accused of masterminding the murder of  a former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency, Joseph Boakye Danquah, has...

Latest on Osino SHTS violent attack

Osino Presby Senior High Technical students (SHTS) in the Eastern region is under heavy police deployment following the violent attack on Monday that claimed one...

Two charged with murder for Super Bowl parade shooting

Two men have been charged with murder for last week's deadly shooting at the Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City. A woman died...

Two Nigerians, Ghanaian allegedly defraud an Emirati of $60K

Two Nigerians and a Ghanaian have been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding a United Arab Emirates national of $60,000 in a gold case....

2 charged for conspiracy to commit robbery and murder in J.B. Danquah case

https://youtu.be/V58dA6ywU5s Two individuals implicated in the murder of the late Abuakwa North MP, Joseph Boakye (J.B.) Danquah-Adu has been charged before the High Court for...

South Africa headteacher shooting: Arrested pupil may be tried as adult

A 13-year-old schoolboy in South Africa, arrested after allegedly shooting and injuring his principal, may be tried as an adult, the prosecuting authority says. The...

Man stabs ex-lover to death at Sehwi Yerepemso

A 36-year-old man identified as Nii has been accused of killing his ex-girlfriend. Former Assemblyman for Papaasi electoral area, Baba Solomon who confirmed the incident...

Four arrested for stealing railway tracks

Four suspects have been arrested over their involvement in the theft of railway tracks near Nsawam in the Eastern region. The suspects, identified as...

3 robbers jailed 60 years

Three armed robbers who attacked a vehicle belonging to Accurate Giant Company on 26th November, 2022 in Tewobabi, Adansi Asokwa district of Ashanti, and...

Two alleged impersonators of Okudzeto Ablakwa granted bail

Two alleged impersonators of Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, have been granted bail by an Accra High Court. Promise...

Chiefs demand probe into alleged killing of herdsmen’s chief at Dolindawyiri

Three paramount chiefs in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region have called on the newly appointed Interior Minister, Henry Quartey, to...

Mentally challenged man kills 4, another in critical condition

A man believed to be mentally challenged has killed four persons at Banda-Nkwanta a community on the Bole-Bamboi highway in the Bole district of...

Two prison wardens interdicted over Chinese inmate’s escape

Two prison war­dens have been handed over to the police for criminal investigations in connection with the escape of a Chinese inmate, at the...

Fear grips Krofrom residents as unknown man is found dead

A yet-to-be-identified young man has been found dead at Krofrom in the Ashanti region. The lifeless body which has sparked fear among residents was discovered...

Murder of Walewale MoMo vendor: Two suspects arrested

Police has arrested two suspects in connection with a robbery and assault incident targeting a mobile money operator on Monday, February 12, in Walewale,...

Woman jailed for taking child to Kenya for FGM

A woman has been jailed for taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM). Amina Noor, 40, from Harrow, north-east London,...

Man who stabbed cousin over lady jailed

An Accra High Court has sentenced an unemployed man to five years imprisonment for manslaughter. Godwin Kotey is said to have stabbed his cousin...

Identity of man stabbed to death at Ashaiman uncovered as Police begin investigation

The Ghana Police Service has commenced investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 47-year-old male adult at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra...

Court fines wheelbarrow thief GH₵600

The Ashaiman District Court has fined a 24-year-old trader, Kingsley Oduro, the sum of Gh₵ 600 for stealing a wheelbarrow. Oduro will serve a six-month imprisonment with hard...

Taxi driver remanded over stolen vehicle

A 26-year-old taxi driver has appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra for allegedly stealing a Hyundai 110 vehicle valued at GH₵75,000. Kofi Sakyi, also...

18 including five teenagers grabbed with narcotics

Five teenagers have been apprehended for possessing suspected narcotic drugs during a police swoop in Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region. The teenagers are part of...

Woman sentenced for pouring hot palm soup on boyfriend’s wife

A woman who threw boiling palm nut soup on her boyfriend's wife has been ordered by the Amasaman Circuit Court to pay a fine...

Jirapa Dubai CEO murder: 5 persons remanded

The Wa district Court has remanded in to police custody 5 five persons arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of the CEO of Royal Cosy...

Runaway suspect jailed 4 years for stealing

The Bole District Magistrate Court, presided over by His Worship Edward Essel, has handed down a verdict in the case involving a 26-year-old teacher,...

Chief State Attorney disbarred from legal practice for allegedly accepting GH¢400K from Woyome 

A Chief State Attorney at the Office of the Attorney-General, Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh, has been disbarred as a lawyer by the General Legal Council (GLC)...

Latest on Kasoa ritual murder case

An Accra High Court has ordered the lawyers in the Kasoa teenager's murder case to file their addresses by March 14, 2024. The order...

Buhari’s signature forged to withdraw $6m

Nigeria is seeking Interpol's help to arrest three suspects who allegedly stole $6.2m (£4.9m) from the central bank, using the forged signature of former...

Suspect who escaped from prison rearrested

A 26-year-old pupil teacher, identified as Bernard Tamayiri, has been rearrested by the Tuna police in the Sawla district of the Savannah region. Suspect...

Trial of man charged for killing 2 minors at Abesim to begin on March 14

The commencement of the trial of Richard Appiah, the draughtsman accused of killing two minors and keeping their bodies in a refrigerator at Abesim...

US fugitive re-arrested in Kenya for wanted murder

Kenyan police have re-arrested a fugitive murder suspect who had escaped from police custody, local media report. Kelvin Kangethe, 41, is wanted by US authorities...

MP places GH¢100k bounty on Jirapa Dubai CEO’s killers

The Member of Parliament for Jirapa constituency, Cletus Seidu Dapilah, has placed a GH¢100,000 bounty on the killers of the CEO of Royal Cosy...

Police probe alleged mob attack on firefighters at Konongo

Police in the Ashanti Region have launched investigations into an alleged mob assault on personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS). The incident took...

Mother of 15-year-old gang-raped by 6 final year SHS students appeals for justice

The mother of a 15-year-old Form One student of Bechem Presbyterian Senior High School (PRESEC) who was allegedly gang-raped by six final-year students of...