CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Two national security personnel, dismissed soldier, 6 others arrested for robbery

Police in Asankragwa led by the Divisional Crime Officer Superintendent Henry Agbeve have arrested nine persons, including two National Security personnel for robbing miners near Atalla of their gold concentrate. The suspects are: Anas Adams, 35 years, a National Security personnel of Jubilee House operations; George Ohene Adjei 56, driver, …

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Driver’s mate gets five years for threatening his mother

A 20-year-old driver’s mate, who threatened to kill his mother for refusing to give him ‘chop’ money has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Nkawie Circuit Court. Maxwell Agyei pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted on his own plea by the court presided by Mr Johnson …

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Lockdown: Sex workers, clients arrested

No fewer than 18 commercial sex workers have been arrested in Ondo State for flouting the state government’s lockdown order put in place to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in the state. Doyin Odebowale, Chairman of the Special Taskforce on COVID-19 Enforcement and  Compliance in the state, who confirmed this to …

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25 marijuana smokers grabbed in Suame

The Suame Municipal Assembly in Kumasi is making inroads in the fight against narcotics, especially the smoking of marijuana also known as ‘Ganja’. This follows the recent arrest of several marijuana smokers in some parts of the Municipality, following a collaboration between a task force and soldiers. The Suame Municipal …

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Highway robber busted

An armed robber who together with four others robbed travelers on the Kpando-Nkonya highway has been arrested by the Police less than 24 hours after the robbery incident. 37-year-old Amadu Ibrahim was arrested at about 12:00noon last Friday, April 24, 2020, when he was trying to escape the jurisdiction with …

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Alleged fraudster on GES payroll busted

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has busted a suspected fraudster that has been withdrawing salaries from the government’s coffers with fake documents for the past decades. The culprit who is a native of the Talensi District in the Upper East Region uses three different identities to undertake this illegality without …

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Man arrested for selling shea butter as cure for Covid-19

The police have arrested a 52-year-old man for allegedly selling Shea butter as a cure for Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus, at Awutu Breku in the Awutu Senya West District, Central region. King David told unsuspecting customers that the shea butter cream cures the disease when applied on …

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72-year-old man shot dead

A 72–year-old man was on Friday shot dead at Kandiga in the Kassena Nankana Municipal (KNM), Upper East Region, after a two-day violent conflict between the Doba Community in the Kassena Naakana West District and Kandiga. The two communities share boundaries and have over the past years disagreed over the …

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