CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The Nkawkaw Divisional Police command has arrested a 30yr old pepper seller Amoako Christiana, a nursing mother for carrying an undisclosed amount of fake new Hundred and Two hundred notes. Amoako, according to the police was arrested when buying goods from the Nkawkaw Central and Agogroshie markets upon a tip-off. …

Some seven Nigerian nationals have been arrested at Avoeme in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region by the Aflao Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service for allegedly engaging in cyberfraud. The seven persons, who were arrested upon a tip-off on Wednesday, 8 April, 2020 at about 19:30hrs …

A Twenty-four-year-old, Abdulai Karim has been jailed six years for escaping from lawful custody and assault on a public officer. Abdulai Karim also known as JJ was arrested in February 2020 for raping and robbing in Sunyani and its environs. He was put before the Sunyani Circuit Court B and …

Abdulai Karim, a 24-year-old convict who escaped from custody while standing trial for multiple rape allegations has been re-arrested by police in the Bono region. Karim was given three years for each count, running consecutively and sentenced for escape from lawful custody and assault on a public officer. Background The …

The 34-year-old Nigerian national who has been remanded for allegedly defying the government’s restriction order by going round to take blood samples of pregnant women and other residents of Gbese, a suburb of James Town without legal authority has pleaded not guilty. Chukwuka James has been charged with the offence …

A 22-year-old man Osman Amadu is in the grips of the Kaneshie Police for spraying a substance in the eyes of a policewoman at Abossey Okai Zongo junction during enforcement of restriction on movement duties. On Friday, April 10, 2020, around 9:00 am, the police officer was on a COVID-19 …

A 22-year-old scrap dealer is in the grips of the police for allegedly spraying some liquid substance into the eyes of a policewoman during enforcement of restriction duties at Kaneshie Zongo junction. The Accra Regional Police public relations officer, DSP Effia Tenge, told DGN Online that Suspect Osman Amadu was …

A suspected thief believed to be in his late 20’s has been lynched by unidentified persons at Newtown, a suburb of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region. The yet-to-be-identified suspect was found dead near the Newtown taxi rank on the Afariwaa- Newtown junction stretch with screw driver and other implements …

Information Reaching Mynewsghana.net indicates that two Police officers are currently nursing various degrees of injuries after they were violently attacked by residents of Likpe Nkwanta near Hohoe in the Oti Region while on a COVID-19 operation. One is said to have allegedly suffered a machete wound while the other has …

A 25-year-old Community Police Assistant was on Sunday, April 12, 2020 shot and killed by suspected armed robbers at Oyoko, a semi-urban community in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region. He has been named as Evans Boateng and was until his death, stationed at the Kumasi Central Police Station, …