CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The High Court in Accra has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Warrant Officer II (WO11) Esther Saan, the only female among the 10 accused persons standing trial for an alleged coup. This was after WO II Esther Saan, the sixth accused person was absent in court when …

The Central East Regional Police Command has arrested some 26 persons suspected to be internet fraudsters. The suspects including two females all believed to be Nigerians were arrested by the police based on intelligence at Iron city, a suburb of Kasoa from three houses they occupied. During the raid at …

A 42-year-old Sergeant Emmanuel Duah, a police officer popularly known as Bob Marley, was accused of defiling a 13-year old girl at Ave Xevi in the Akatsi North District of the Volta region in September, has been interdicted. This was revealed by the Tongu Divisional Commander of the Ghana Police …

TWI NEWS • Rev. Owusu Bempah has been rearrested for threatening the life of Patricia Oduro • He has however been slapped with new charges by the police • Rev. Owusu Bempah is standing trial in two different courts Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah, the General Overseer of Glorious Word Power Ministry …

A 32-year-old suspect, Tanko Sani, has been arrested by the police for falsely pretending to be a public officer and defrauding by false pretence. Information from the Eastern Regional Police Command indicates that the suspect is said to have introduced himself as an army officer and collected cash of GH¢2,800 from victim …

A three-member panel of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe has subpoenaed a doctor of the Ogbojo Polyclinic to appear in court tomorrow over an excused duty issued to an accused person. Continuation of further cross-examination of the third prosecution witness Staff Sergeant Awarf Sule …

The Bono East Regional Police Command has arrested a notorious Techiman-based gunrunner of locally manufactured weapons. Mr Akwasi Biyele, 26, has been supplying guns to persons who commit robberies and all manner of crimes on the Kintampo-Buipe highway. According to the police, the suspect is the brain behind the supply …

The Tema Regional Police Command has arrested suspect Dordzi Dzedefo, who has been on the run since July this year, for alleged robbery and rape committed on July 13, 2021.   The suspect, who is a motorbike operator, was hired by his victim from Kakasunanka No. 1 to Golf City. …

A man, who raped his ex-girlfriend in a bid to get her pregnant and force her to marry him, was jailed for 10-and-a-half years and given six strokes of cane on Monday (8 November). The man, now 28, had already impregnated the woman twice – when she was 14 and …

A young man whose name is given as Mensah Moses has been jailed for three years for stealing plantain from the garden of a Policeman. Narrating his sad ordeal to Crime Check Foundation, Mensah indicated that he shares a wall with the Policeman at Saltpond in the Central region and …