CRIME & PUNISHMENT

An armed robber, among a gang of four, has been killed during a shootout with police at Heman and Akokoaso section of the Anwiankwanta-Obuasi highway in the Ashanti Region. A gun battle broke out between police and armed robbers who are believed to be of Fulani extraction on Tuesday on …

  A routine patrol duty on the Anwiankwanta-Obuasi highway turned bloody as suspected robbers engaged police in a fierce gun battle. The patrol team from the Jacobu District Command in the Ashanti Region said the incident occured Tuesday dawn when at least four armed gang emerged when they reached the …

The Accra Regional Police Command is after some suspects who allegedly exhumed a body at the Abokobi-Boi public cemetery in Accra.The corpse of Theophilus Budu, 49, who died on Monday, 10 May 2021, was buried at the cemetery prompting calls to the police on 11 May 2021. However, at about …

Four fetish priests, including the couple whose activities allegedly enthralled two teenagers to kill an 11-year-old boy, purposely for money rituals, have been attacked by irate youth at Amanase near Suhum in the Eastern Region. The violence was so intense that it took the intervention of the police from three …

One person has been confirmed dead after a group of suspected armed robbers engaged in a shoot-out with police at Jacobu in the Ashanti Region. According to the police, the Jacobu patrol team, in their routine duties on the Anwiankwanta-Obuasi stretch at dawn on Tuesday, saw a group of four …

Eunice Adomako, a 29-year-old resident of Oduman near Ablekuma in Accra, has been arrested for allegedly stealing a six-month-old baby. According to reports, Eunice failed to inform her two boyfriends after she lost her baby at birth at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital last December 2020. Her two boyfriends, one …

  The on-the-run Fetish priest in Kasoa Murder, whose name was given as Wazinga, has been arrested in another case of attempted ritual killing. Wazinga was arrested after attempting to perform money rituals for another person. It will be recalled that two teenagers, aged 16 and 17 respectively, on Saturday, …

  Three illegal miners have been jailed five years each by a Circuit Court in Koforidua for engaging in illegal mining at Tentenku No.8 near Kofi Pare in the Kraboa Coaltar district of the Eastern Region. The convicts, Alhassan Abass, 28, Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, and Munkaila Djebo, 38, were apprehended …

A suspected armed robber has been gunned down by police officers of the Jacobu District Police Command on Tuesday May 11. date rush The Police also arrested three other suspects on the Obuasi-Anwiankwanta stretch of road in the Ashanti Region. Jacobu District Police commander, Superintendent Abdulai Iddrisu speaking on Akoma …

  Wonder Ahiadzro, a driver of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Customs Division, who stole and sold a Toyota LandCruiser at the cost of GHC20,000, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Kaneshie District Court. The original price of the vehicle, property of GRA, Customs Division, is stated at …