CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Methodist Bishop, two others in court for destroying palm farm

A Bishop of the Methodist Church in Goaso, Bishop O.S.K Boakye, and two other individuals have been dragged before a High Court in Sunyani for unlawfully entering into a palm farm and alleged destruction of some cash crops and several foodstuffs. Plaintiff, Amma Serwaa, also of Goaso, through her lawyers …

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279 Ghanaians, 107 foreigners arrested, mining equipment destroyed

A total of 279 Ghanaians and 107 foreigners were arrested in a joint security operation in the five regions of the North and in some parts of Burkina Faso, Togo and Ivory Coast. National Security Advisor, Emanuel Okyere, stated the joint operation was intelligence led and intended to ward off …

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3 brothers jailed for fraud

Three brothers have been found guilty of fraud by the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned Emmanuel Udofa, Thank God Udofa, and Jonathan Udofa on one count charge of false representation. The brothers were caught pretending to be Chinese …

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Police in Walewale chase 7 robbers who attacked and killed MoMo vendor

The Walewale District Police Command is on a manhunt for seven suspected robbers who attacked some mobile money vendors and shops at Yama in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region. The attack happened on Wednesday. The police, in a press statement, said the suspects shot and killed …

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Wa East: Soldiers grab 14 suspected illegal miners, burn equipment at Manwe

A dawn military operation at Manwe, a mining community in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region, has led to the arrest of 14 foreign nationals suspected to be engaged in illegal mining (galamsey). Mining equipment belonging to the foreign nationals and their places of residence were also …

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Painter arrested for possessing 228 parcels of suspected indian hemp

The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested a suspect by the name of Haruna Iddirsu aged 36 years who is a painter and a gardener by profession for processing Narcotic Drugs without lawful authority. On 23th of November 2021, the Regional Police gathered that a drug transporting syndicate who had …

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19-year-old stabbed by mother and brother after she walked in on their amorous affair

A mother and son engaged in amorous relationship Family shared a single-room Akos was stabbed by her mother and brother while asleep A 19-year-old girl has narrated the circumstances under which her mother and her brother connived and stabbed her, in an attempt to get her killed because she walked …

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N/R: One reportedly shot dead in Bimbilla

One person has allegedly been shot dead by armed military men who reportedly stormed Bimbilla in the Northern Region in search of weapons. The deceased believed to be in his late 30s after is said to have sustained gunshot wounds in his abdomen. Sources in Bimbilla say, a joint military, …

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Police arrest suspect for brandishing weapon with threats on social media

The Police Intelligence Directorate, yesterday, Monday, November 22, 2021, arrested suspect, Nii Ponponsuo, after seeing a viral video in which the suspect was captured loading a pump-action gun with cartridges and making threatening utterances. The Police after reviewing the video conducted a special exercise that led to the suspect’s arrest …

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Police arrest 14-year-old, four others

Suspected robbers arrested on November 16, 2021 Gang of five, including a female and a juvenile, robbed commuters on highways in the Bono and Ashanti regions Suspected robbers highway identified by victims Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested five highway robbery suspects including a juvenile. The suspects, according to …

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