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A District Magistrate Court at Adentan has sentenced a 30-year-old man, identified as Lucky Mensah, to six months into prison custody for stealing.

The suspect is said to have broken into a shop at Oyarifa, ransacked it and took away some valuable items.

Appearing before the court, Mr Mensah pleaded guilty on charges of causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry and stealing.

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According to the police, he engaged in this ill act in June 2020 but was apprehended on August 20, 2020, by the Abokobi police after a phone he stole and sold to a third party implicated him.

At the time of arrest, the police retrieved six other mobile phones and valuables which were identified as stolen items from the shop.