Crime

Court to decide ex-MASLOC boss’ fate

An Accra High Court will on January 24, 2023, decide whether or not to hold the trial of former Chief Executive Officer of Microfinance...

Wendy Shay Concert: One remanded for robbery

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into Police custody, Thomas Atiah, aka Tom Lee Sparta, for allegedly robbing some patrons of Wendy Shay concert. Three...

Man going through divorce rams truck into wife’s home [Video]

An estranged husband whose wife says they are going through a divorce was captured on camera repeatedly ramming a dump truck into his partner’s...

Eight arrested in connection with Buipe disturbances granted bail

The eight suspects who were arrested in connection with disturbances at Buipe in the Savannah Region have been granted bail. This was on the...

Court remands Nigerian over alleged human trafficking

A 26-year-old Nigerian man charged with human trafficking has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court. Osahenvimwen Raymond was charged for receiving 18 trafficked people...

Self-acclaimed pastor arrested for defrauding SDA church members [Audio+Photo]

JoyNews/AdomNews · SDA Church members defrauded The Awutu Bawjiase District Police Command has arrested a self-style pastor for allegedly defrauding some members of the Seventh...

Pastor jailed 519 years for defrauding over 100 people

An Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Evelyn Asamoah, has sentenced a Reverend Minister, Edward Buabeng, to a total of 519 years imprisonment. Rev Buabeng was handed down the sentence yesterday, after having...

Suspect who stole Meek Mill’s phone granted 15k bail

The 33-year-old scrap dealer who allegedly stole US rapper, Meek Mill's phone has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢15,000 with two sureties...

Immigration Officer, okada rider shot at Aflao

An argument between a Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) officer and a motorcycle rider (Okada) at the Aflao Beat 9 Border Post over the nationality...

Man in court for selling broken tiles as phone

A self-professed phone trader, Mustapha Hamidu, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly selling packed broken tiles as phones. He has been charged...

Court refuses to halt coup plotters’ trial

An Accra High Court refused to stay proceedings in the trial of 10 persons arraigned before it for attempting to violently overthrow the Nana...

Three shot in land guard attack at Awutu Papaase

Three construction workers have been injured after suspected land guards shot them at Awutu Paapase Number 2 in the Central Region. The armed land guards,...

Man in court for selling broken tiles as phones

A self-professed phone trader, Mustapha Hamidu, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly selling packed broken tiles as phones. He has been...

Innocent teacher jailed 20 years over defilement regains freedom

The Accra High Court has acquitted Maxwell Bernieh, a teacher who was wrongly convicted of defilement in 2016. The judgment comes after Mr Bernieh had...

Woman’s head found in shower after decapitation by her husband

The Texas woman who was allegedly decapitated by her husband was found in a pool of blood near the couple’s bed — and her head was...

Trader who allegedly defrauded driver granted bail

A 52-year-old trader, who allegedly took GHS28,000.00 from a driver under the pretext of obtaining a Mexican Visa for him but failed, has been...

Man grabbed over alleged contract killing attempt at Ekwamasi

A man at Ekwamasi, a town in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region, Kofi Badu, has been arrested for contracting someone...

Man arrested over COCOBOD recruitment scam

Bernard Frimpong Boateng, unemployed, who allegedly collected GHC21, 800 under the pretext of facilitating the recruitment of three persons into COCOBOD but failed has...

Jamestown chieftaincy clashes: 10 suspects arrested

Some 10 persons have been arrested by the Police at Jamestown, Accra, after a violent clash that took place in the area on Sunday. A...

Man chops off father’s hand and leg at Assin Tomfokor

A 32-year-old man, identified as Kwaku Nyankomago, is in police grips for physically assaulting his biological father with a cutlass at Assin Tomfokor in...

2 Chinese, 4 Ghanaians arrested over galamsey at Enchi

Two Chinese and four Ghanaians have been arrested at Asemkrom in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region for their involvement in illegal...

Robbery suspect shot dead; another bites Policeman in swoop at Buduburam

A robbery suspect has been shot dead with another arrested by the Central East Regional Police Command in the Central Region. One of the...

One injured in violent youth clash at Obuasi [Video]

A 21-year-old galamseyer, Samed Ibrahim, has sustained injuries in a violent clash between youth groups at Obuasi Estate and Gausu in the Ashanti...

Estate developer in court over alleged GH¢385k fraud

An estate developer has been charged with defrauding by false pretence for allegedly taking GH¢385,000 from his colleague after promising to secure him a...

Man allegedly kills wife near Koforidua

A commercial vehicle driver has allegedly killed his wife at Oyoko a suburb of Koforidua, Eastern Regional capital. The suspect, identified as Abeiku, allegedly...

Ghanaian-American soldier allegedly killed by colleague during altercation

A soldier assigned to Fort Rucker, Alabama, was arrested Tuesday after brutally attacking a fellow soldier, officials told Army Times in a Wednesday afternoon...

Court sentences 40-year-old over death threat  

A Jasikan Circuit Court has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Sampson Kwame Asong, to five years imprisonment for threatening to kill a drinking spot owner...

Three remanded for robbing “Afrochella” fan of her iPhone X

Three persons including an ex-convict who robbed a tourist of her mobile phone valued at GHS3,000 at El-Wak Sports Stadium in Accra have appeared...

Two remanded over GH¢900K robbery

Two suspected robbers have been put before an Accra Circuit Court for conspiring with two others to rob a businessman of his GH¢ 900,000...

One injured, property vandalised as Gausu youth clash

Fear has gripped the entire Gausu community in the Obuasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region following violent attacks on some youth by a group...

Fake cop, 3 others allegedly hijack, steal tanker transporting petrol

A man dressed in Police uniform, accompanied by two plain clothes men, have allegedly hijacked and stolen a tanker vehicle fully loaded with fuel...

Police investigate murder of mother and son

The Millennium City Police Command has commenced investigations into the circumstances that led to the death of a mother and son at Green Estate,...

Caprice robbery: Accused pleads not guilty to charges

Four out of the five accused persons arrested in connection with the Caprice robbery incident in Accra have pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against...

Walewale residents live in fear over robberies

Residents of Walewale and its environs in the West Mamprusi municipality in the North East Region are living in constant fear following incessant armed...

Nana Agradaa fails to appear in court

The Police on Wednesday prayed an Accra Circuit Court to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of Patricia Asiedua aka Nana Agradaa, a...

DVLA interdicts 4 staff implicated in ‘Money Over Human Lives’ documentary

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has interdicted four members of staff who were implicated in Corruption Watch's Francisca Enchill's ‘Money Over Human...

Headmaster shot in the eye while easing himself in bush at Ekumfi

A 35-year-old assistant headmaster of Ekumfi Akra Methodist Basic School is battling for his life after he was shot in a bush near a...

Man, 28, found dead by roadside at Assin Dominase

Fear and panic have gripped residents of Dominase in the Assin South District of the Central Region following the murder of a 28-year-old man. The...

Man sues police over arrest

The head of the Huahi Royal Family of Boadi in the Ashanti Region has filed a suit against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) over...

ECG uncovers fake meters usage in Krobo area; perpetrators arrested

The Krobo District branch of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has uncovered fake meters and direct power connections in their system which was...