Crime

Man jailed 8 years for forging Bank of Ghana Microfinance license

A 34-year-old man, who forged a Bank of Ghana (BoG) License to operate a microfinance company at Suhum in the Eastern region and its...

Alleged Coup: My comments on Arab Spring have no links with criminality – ACP Agordzo

Assistant Commissioner of Police, (ACP), Dr Benjamin Kwasi Agordzo has told the Financial and Economic Division of the High Court in Accra that his...

Security analyst sends important message to National Security Ministry

A Security Analyst, Paul Boateng, is of the view that there are some inadequacies with the National Security Ministry's see something, say something campaign....

2023 BECE: Four arrested for examination malpractice on first day

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has disclosed that four individuals have been apprehended for their alleged involvement in examination malpractice during the commencement...

15 persons arrested during protest on Awoshie-Pokuase Highway

About 15 persons from Awoshie Mangoase in Accra have been arrested by the police for blocking some sections of the Awoshie to Pokuase Highway....

2 arrested for beating ECG staff

The Ghana Police Service has arrested two persons, Richard Asante Larry, 27, and Jonathan Ahele, 27, for allegedly assaulting some staff of the Electricity...

Ejisuman SHS student attacks colleague with machete during preps

A suspected robber has attacked a student at Ejisuman SHS with a machete while learning in the classroom at preps in the evening. ...

Soldier allegedly assaults Bolt driver over traffic dispute

A ride-hailing driver associated with Bolt has reportedly been assaulted by a man in military attire following a traffic dispute.The driver, who had...

Beige Bank case: Accused never received any funds in person or stole – Investigator

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abednego Atsah, the investigator in the ongoing trial where Michael Nyinaku, the founder of the defunct Beige Bank is...

Three Bolgatanga Hospital staff arrested for stealing medicines

The Police have arrested three staff of the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital in the Upper East Region for allegedly stealing boxes of assorted medicines.The suspects...

Manhunt for child abuser who tied nine-year-old boy to orange tree 

The security services and residents of Akaa Community in the Jasikan Municipality of the Oti Region have intensified their search for a 74-old-man who...

Driver sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for invoking curses on police offcicer

A Kasoa District Court handed down a verdict sentencing a driver named Joshua Amankwaa to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour.The conviction was a...

Police on manhunt for robbers who attacked cargo vehicles in Ashanti region

The Police are on a manhunt to arrest robbers who attacked and robbed two cargo vehicles at Anyinamso No. 1 in the Ashanti Region.The...

Police probe 14-year-old boy’s involvement in robbery at Potsin

The Central Regional Police Command is investigating a 14-year-old boy for his alleged involvement in a robbery that led to him sustaining deep machete...

Police investigate death of Bekwai MCE’s daughter

The Police have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a female adult, Akua Serwaa Kyei at Atwima Bebu in the...

Daughter of Akufo-Addo’s appointee allegedly murdered in her home

Armed robbers have allegedly killed a 33-year-old daughter of Bekwai Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Kwaku Kyei Baffour.The incident occurred on Thursday evening, 3rd August...

Man allegedly kills 7-year-old niece for money rituals

Residents of Wassa Nkyirifi, a farming community in the Western Region, woke up on Friday morning to the horror of a suspected murder of...

Ghana Immigration Service interdicts 27 officers

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has taken disciplinary action against 27 officers, comprising three senior officers and 24 junior officers.The action is over their...

Ablekuma bullion van robbery suspect faints in cells

The Police on Thursday could not produce Hope Osaze, the third accused person in the Ablekuma bullion van robbery, in court.This is because he allegedly...

Treason Trial: NIB should be commending me, not… – ACP Agordzo

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dr Benjamin Kwasi Agordzo, says the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) should be commending and not charging him with treason. He...

Three suspects arrested for injuring police officers with stones

The Akyem Oda Divisional Police Command has apprehended three individuals who were allegedly involved in a disturbing incident at the Akim Oda Palace in...

My client hasn’t stolen any money – Lawyer for accused in Cecilia Dapaah’s case

The lawyer for the main suspect in the Cecilia Dapaah theft case says his client has not stolen any money.The accused, Patience Botwe –...

Adisadel college student rejects charges against him in court

The case involving the bully at Adisadel College in Cape Coast will continue after the end of the 2023 West Africa Senior School Certificate...

Airport Residential robbery: Court orders prosecution to file documents’

An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the prosecution in the case in which eight people are facing charges over an alleged robbery of a...

Two arrested after failed robbery attempt at Yeji

Police at Yeji in the Pru East District in the Bono East Region have arrested two persons over an alleged plot to rob a...

Two arrested for selling fake ECG metres at Tarkwa

Two persons who posed as workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been arrested by the Tarkwa Central Police and charged with...

Treason trial: Colonel Gameli slapped with contempt

The Accra High Court trying nine persons for treason has sentenced Colonel Samuel Kwadzo Gameli to sign a bond to be of good behaviour...

MASLOC trial: Court orders Sedinam Tamakloe, another to respond to 78 charges

The Financial and Economic Division of the Accra High Court has ordered “absconded” former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre...

How Apple AirPods led to the conviction of a thief

The Police had an easy task of locating an unwitty thief with the aid of an embedded tracking device in an Apple AirPods he...

Unemployed jailed three years for stealing cooking items

A 25-year-old unemployed young man, who stole cooking items valued GH₵1,450.00 has been sentenced by an Accra Circuit Court.Ebenezer Bortey unlawfully broke into the...

Auditor-General cites ECG for over $145m worth of procurement breaches

The Auditor-General has found significant procurement breaches amounting to over $145 million involving the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).These breaches occurred during the...

Prison warden promoted for capturing escaped prisoner

A Lance Corporal with the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) has been promoted to the rank of Corporal for capturing a fugitive who escaped from...

2 Urban Roads workers embezzle GH¢1.9million

The 2022 Auditor General report has revealed that two account officers of the Greater Accra Regional Department of Urban Roads embezzled GH¢1.9 million between...

Coalition of Aggrieved Menzgold customers calls for NAM1’s arrest

The Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold is calling on the government to arrest the Chief Executive Officer of the defunct gold dealership company,...

Kumawu MP offers medical treatment to Dadease police brutality victim

Kumawu Member of Parliament(MP), Ernest Yaw Anim, has promised to provide medical treatment to Justice Afram, a young man who was assaulted by a...

Mother whose son suffered police brutality at Dadease speaks

Afia Owusuwaa, the mother of a 23-year-old man who was dragged on the ground at Dadease by a policeman during an arrest, has spoken...

Man dragged on the ground by policeman gives chilling account

Justice Afram, an alleged thief captured in a viral video being dragged on the ground by the police during an arrest, has spoken on...

Woman slits co-tenant’s throat in revenge fight

A 20-year-old woman is battling for her life after her co-tenant nearly chopped off her head in a fight at Awutu Bereku in...

Court adjourns Adisadel College student’s case

The Cape Coast District Court 2 has adjourned the case involving an Adisadel College student who violently assaulted his colleague over a sim card.This...

Policeman interdicted after dragging man on the ground during arrest

The Police say it has interdicted one of its officers captured in a viral video dragging a suspect on the ground during an arrest...