CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The Forestry Commission Task Force has arrested ten persons for farming in the Afrensu Brouhuma Forest Reserve in Offinso in the Ashanti Region. The intruders have also built homes in what is supposed to be a virgin forest. Routine patrol by forest guards uncovered the illegal activity of the farmers. …

A son of Alhaji Asuma Banda unlawfully broke into his father’s mansion at the Airport Residential Area, it has been reported. Fadel Asuma Banda, 33, a son of the Chief Executive Officer of Antrak Group of Companies, was arrested, together with two others, Aliu Bello, 28; and Suleman Mohammed, 36, …

Stephen Dzisenu, a 37-year-old Disease Control Officer of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital is in the grips of the Gt. Accra Police for stealing 36 vials of Covishield. Cosmos Allotey a 42-year-old Occupational Health and Safety Officer, is said to have received the stolen Covishield from Pabitey and Dzisenu. Allotey …

Police in Suhum in the Eastern Region have arrested a 45-year-old woman, Beatrice Amo, for battering her 13-year-old stepson for allegedly stealing her Ghc300. Beatrice, who is heavy with pregnancy, allegedly subjected her stepson to inhumane treatment over allegations which the boy now hospitalized at the Suhum Government Hospital, has …

Three persons have been picked up by the Airport Police in Accra for attempting to break into the house of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Antrak Group of Companies, Alhaji Asuma Banda at the Airport Residential Area. The three were named as Fadel Asuma Banda, 33, son of the …

A ten-month-old baby girl was on Thursday evening found dead at Nyanyano beach in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The toddler found wrapped in white clothes with black polythene bag around her, had cotton wool in her mouth, nose and ears. Many residents who trooped to the …

A Tamale High Court has sentenced a 32-year-old system administrator to eight (8) years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing GH¢159,300 from the coffers of his former employer, the Buuwulonso One Stop Rural Bank at Damongo in the Savannah Region. Cephas Agbodo, who had moved on to Borimanga Rural Bank …

Two sisters, 18-year-old Emelia Adomaa and 14-year-old Portia Sadia who live in Dormaa in the Bono Region of Ghana have suffered severe burns after Emelia’s former boyfriend set their room ablaze. According to the girls’ elder sister, Formaa Ernestina, Emelia’s 22-year-old boyfriend got infuriated after she told him about her …

  Residents of Gomoa Nyanyano in the Gomoa East District of Central Region have been thrown into a state of shock after they discovered the body of a 10-month-old baby buried at the seashore. The baby was wrapped with a white cloth inside a black polythene bag In an interview …

The Economic and Organised Crime Office has saved three babies from a baby-selling syndicate barely two months after busting a baby-harvesting ring in Accra. This crime ring steals babies from their mothers in the hospitals after delivery and sells them between GHC28,000 and GHC30, 000. Eleven suspects have been arrested …