CRIME & PUNISHMENT

More than 50 persons have been arrested after two military officers were attacked at Dome Faase near Accra. A military contingent was deployed to the town to restore calm forcing residents to flee to avoid arrest. The uniformed men reportedly clashed with rampaging residents on Tuesday, while protecting a parcel …

Police at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region have arrested a 36-year old man who had in his possession 355 duplicates of the new Voters’ ID Cards and 17 National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Cards. The suspect, John Amoah, told police that he was taking contact details of residents at …

A suspected highway robber was killed during an attack on some passengers at Pisii, a community near the SD Dombo University in the Upper West regional capital, Wa. The incident which occurred at about 2:30 am on Monday, August 24, comes days after two armed men were gunned down by …

A 38-year-old woman has been arrested by police in Drobo for allegedly dumping her day-old baby boy in a public toilet at Baateakwa in the Jaman South Municipality of the Bono Region. The woman, Akua Serwaa, who has since been transferred to the Berekum Police Command was arraigned, and is …

A security man was allegedly caught red handed by residents, defiling an 8-year-old girl in Ibusa, Asaba, Delta State. He was reportedly caught in the act on Saturday, August 22nd,2020, in a building under construction. The suspect was stripped, tied up and handed over to the police for further investigation.   According …

The police have arrested 30 suspected criminals in a swoop at Cambodia, near Baastona, in Accra, at weekend. The suspects, between the ages of 18 and 23, including the kingpin, Isaac Nkrumah, also known as ‘Thunder’, are in the custody of the police, assisting in investigations. Items retrieved from the …

A middle-aged man whose name has been given as Sumaila is reported to have invoked curses on a judge for sentencing him to five years imprisonment with hard labour to a crime he claimed he was innocent of and was slapped with two more years. Initially, Sumaila was sentenced to …

Two mobile money vendors were attacked and robbed of their possessions by five suspected armed robbers at Hamile, in the Upper West Region on Saturday about 10:30 pm.   The suspected armed robbers attacked and robbed their victims of GH¢90,000 and GH¢60,000 respectively and made away with a number of …

Two Green Track students of Oyoko Methodist Senior High School (OMESS) and an accomplice have been convicted to a fine of GH¢1000 each or in default serve 6 months in prison. The convicts are 18-year-old Caleb Addo Amponsah alias Sweetie Pie, Festus Boateng alias Filla, 17, both second-year Green Track …

A resident at Abebuom a village in the Assin South District of the Central Region, Baba Abubakar has inflicted knife wounds on his wife and two and a half year-old son. The suspect who is currently on the run is said to have done this because the wife had separated …