CRIME & PUNISHMENT

“It is terrible and horrible,” was the description given by shocked Akuse District Police Commander Superintendent Winfred Asare Nyarko to a 10-year-old girl with both hands scald by her Auntie. Both hands of the victim were burnt with hot water by his Auntie, Vera Koranteng, 32, for not performing house …

The Denu District Police Command has arrested a 28-year old Korshie Atitso and on a lookout for three other accomplices for robbery and causing harm at a house located in Kpogedi, in the Ketu South Municipality. The arrest followed calls from the community that the suspect and his gang attacked …

Two motorbike thieves have been sentenced to a total of fifteen years in prison in hard labour According to the Police, on September 10, 2020, at about 11:30pm Issifu Shiabu hired the services of a motor rider from Manhean to Ablekuma for a fare of GH¢15.00. Upon arriving at Issifu’s …

Reuben Abusah alias Last Burial, a 20-year-old musician and a resident of Akatsi in the Volta Region, has been sentenced by the Ho Circuit Court to two years imprisonment in hard labour for lottery fraud. He pleaded guilty to a charge of defrauding by false pretense and was convicted on …

Chief Superintendent, Dennis Fiakpui, the Sogakope Divisional Commander MyNewsGh.com has confirmed suffered multiple cutlass and a gunshot wound in the hands of rebels of the separatists, Homeland Study Group of Western Togoland. The police chief who had gone to find out what was happening after one of the stations was attacked by …

A notorious highway robbery gang terrorising commuters in Kwahu South, Kwahu Afram Plains North and south and its environs in the Eastern Region struck again Saturday morning. The robbers numbering four attacked four vehicles transporting traders at gunpoint at Kweklu community along the Nketepa road at about 7:00am. The Assembly …

The Ejisu police have mounted a manhunt to arrest an armed gang that attacked and robbed a taxi driver of his vehicle at Baworo in the Ejisu Municipality. The gang, made up of two, succeeded in snatching the Toyota Matrix taxi cab with registration Number AW 1403-20 belonging to one …

Notorious highway robbery gang terrorizing commuters in Kwahu South, Kwahu Afram Plains North and South and environs in the Eastern Region struck again Saturday morning. The robbers numbering four(4) in number attacked four vehicles transporting traders at gunpoint at Kweklu community along the Nketepa road at about 7:00am. The Assembly …

Thirty-one members of the Western Togoland group that blocked some entries to the Volta region Friday morning have been arrested. They were arrested in a joint police and military operation after they exchanged gunfire with the officers. The suspects have been handed over to the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) …

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has intercepted 152kg of cocaine concealed in a shipment of sugar from Brazil at the Tema Harbour. A statement from NACOC on Saturday, September 26, 2020 said the interception was successfully carried out based on intelligence gathered in conjunction with other security outfits such as the Bureau …