CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A suspected female mobile money fraudster, Kate Boateng has been arrested in Dabaa in the Ashanti Region. Kate Boateng allegedly defrauded a mobile money vendor to the tune of GHC5,400 The suspect was nearly lynched by an angry crowd but she was saved by the Member of Parliament for the …

Three suspects arrested in connection with the murder of a social media activist, Kaaka Macho at Ejura are making their maiden appearance at the Asokwa District Court in Kumasi. The suspects are Issakar Ibrahim, also known as Anyas, Fuseini Alhassan and Iddi Mohammed. They are expected to answer charges on …

• Deborah Mensah has been jailed for six years in the US • She played a role in ‘sakawa’ which targeted the elderly from about 2014 to 2018 • Deborah Mensah was extradited from Ghana to the US in August 2020 Deborah Mensah, a 34-year-old Ghanaian, has been sentenced by …

Two Junior High School pupils of Rev. Cobbah Yalley Junior High School at Newsite a suburb in the Effia-Kwesimintsim of the Western Region are in the grips of the Western Regional Police Command for assaulting their headmistress. Municipal Chief Executive for Effia-Kwesiminstim Municipal Assembly (EKMA), Kojo Acquah disclosed this during …

The Anti-Armed Robbery Taskforce of the Ghana Police Service on Tuesday seized 2,882 live ammunitions from a robbery gang at Ntoaso in the Eastern Region. The Operation based on a tip-off, also retrieved 840 rounds of M16 ammunitions, 23 BB cartridges, AK 47 Assault Riffle, M16 Riffle, Pump Action Gun, …

• Gunshots and tear gas have been fired as scrap dealers clashed with security agents in Agbogbloshie • Operatives had gone to the market to undertake a planned decongestion of onion traders • The decongestion is part of the Regional Minister’s plan to ‘Make Accra Work Again’ Scrap dealers at …

Two armed robbers have been shot dead in an anti-armed robbery operation by the Police at Ntoaso in the Eastern Region. The successful operation also saw the retrieval of some dangerous weapons including; 1 AK 47 Assault Rifle, 1 M 16 Rifle, 1 Pump Action Gun, shotguns, pistol, BB Cartridges …

The Police Ghana Service has deployed its new Anti-Armed Robbery Task Force (AARTF) in a sting operation against Armed Robbers as part of a strategy to curb robberies and other organized crime The police were acting on Intelligence about some Arms and Ammunitions that had been concealed by a gang …

Residents of Bremang in the Ashanti Region were thrown into a state of shock on Friday when they discovered a newborn baby found abandoned in a bin at a toilet facility covered with tissue. The baby girl was found wrapped and dumped in a bin in the facility shortly after …

  Three armed robbers busted for an operation in Obuasi in the Ashanti region on 11 May 2021 have confessed to taking part in the murder of the late Mfantseman MP, Ekow Quansah Hayford. Addressing the press on Wednesday, 30 June 2021, Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the …