CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The anti-armed robbery squad deployed to the Eastern Region by the acting Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has arrested 22 suspects including a Fulani Chief in Donkorkrom in the Afram Plains in possession of weapons cache and ammunition. The weapons retrieved are; one foreign pistol, three locally …

A Twenty-five (25) year-old resident of Mafi Dove in the Central Tongu District of the Volta region is in the grips of the Battor Aveyime Police Command for allegedly beheading a 12-year-old boy for ritual purposes. According to residents, the incident happened late Sunday night, after a drumming competition among …

Four persons are currently in police custody for their alleged involvement in some robbery and murder cases on the Kintampo-Buipe-Tamale highway. The four – Saaju Bukari, Bertor Saabi, Ali Amadi and Isaad Seidu – were arrested following an intelligence-led operation conducted by the Special Anti-Robbery Task Force. The operation also …

The Savelugu Police have arrested two persons for allegedly stealing goats. The police found the stolen livestock in an Opel Astra with registration number BA 1538-12. The suspected goat thieves were arrested at a snap checkpoint at the Savelugu Airport junction. According to Accra-based myjoyonline, suspects, Haruna Zakaria, 23, who …

Unknown assailants have killed a 35-year-old owner of a private school in the Eastern Region. Mr Frederick Kwaku Ohene Gyan was shot dead at Pokrom in the Akuapem South District on Friday, 27 August 2021 at about 10:45 pm. “A Smith & Wesson pistol, an empty magazine disengaged from its …

Head Pastor of El-Shadi Outreach Ministry at Anaji is in court after allegedly engaging in sexual relations with a 30-year-old woman who happens to be his church member, dailyguidenetwork.com has reported. The woman, Regina Ankrah who resides at Diabene New Site near Sekondi says the pastor, Bishop June Nana Kwame …

Some commuters on Bolgatanga-Walewale road have reportedly been robbed at gunpoint at a section of the road between Wulugu and Karimenga. MyNewsGh.com source who was a victim of the robbery said the armed robbers stopped all cars that were on the road in broad daylight. Passengers were then asked to …

• Ahmed Rufai has been jailed four years in the United States of America • He and four others pleaded guilty to defrauding hundreds of US citizens • He broke bail conditions and fled to Ghana but was arrested in April Ahmed Tourey Rufai, a US-based Ghanaian fraudster who fled …

An international journalist in Ghana for a documentary has been shot to death by suspected armed robbers on the Tamale–Buipe road in the Savannah region. According to the Northern Regional Police command, the incident occurred around the Mpaha Junction on Monday, August 23, 202, at 7pm. A statement signed by …

The Western North Regional Taskforce of the Small Scale Miners Association of Ghana, together with the Sefwi Wiawso District Police Command have arrested some illegal miners in the District. The Anti- Galamsey operations also led to the seizure of water pumping machines, motorbikes, mobile phones, and parts of excavators in …