CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The Ghana Police Service has arrested at least 34 women in the Tema Metropolitan Assembly of the Greater Accra Region for engaging in prostitution. According to a report by myjoyonline.com, the arrests were made after complaints by residents of the metropolis about prostitutes parading their streets at night looking for clients. …

  The Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court in the Eastern Region on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, convicted and sentenced 72-year-old Eric Danso, alias Aboloway to seven years imprisonment with hard labor, for defiling his 13-year-old granddaughter. The court presided over by Kwasi Apiati Abadu (Esq) heard that the suspect committed the crime …

Two Nigerians, Gbemisola Akinrinade and Adebowale Adiatu, have been arrested by the Canadian police for allegedly enriching themselves with the proceeds from the sales of valid flight tickets to unsuspecting customers. According to Canada Today, the suspects fraudulently sold more than 250 airline tickets at a value of more than $500,000 in …

The Western Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service has interdicted a police officer who left his rifle in a commercial bus after allegedly collecting Gh¢100 from a driver.   An online publication sighted on 3new.com indicated that the alleged police officer, Inspector Sulemana Adam, with the Rapid Deployment Force …

A Hohoe Magistrate Court has ordered Francis Ahiaho and Samuel Tenkpor, both household heads to construct a toilet before February 27, 2023. They were brought before the Court for refusal to construct household latrine and depositing of faeces in polythene bags behind their living room and bathhouse. Ahiaho pleaded guilty …

A 32-year-old man at Nkawie Panin in the Ashanti Region is battling for his life after he was butchered over a bunch of plantains. According to a police report, the victim, Ali Dawuda was in his house around 6:30 pm on Saturday, January 21, 2023, when the suspect, angrily came …

Police in Krobo have arrested a woman on a residential property for illegally replacing her meter. According to sources at angelonline.com.gh, officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana had installed a new prepaid meter in the home of the woman, but routine checks by officers uncovered that the culprit had …

Agorsor Christian, a 22-year-old commercial motor rider, has allegedly stabbed his colleague rider to death. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) learnt the alleged act was as a result of the suspect’s attempt to pick a passenger ahead of the deceased. Agbesi Davor, 33, died on his way to the Abor …

The High Court in Cape Coast has sentenced Bright Ellis, the man accused of killing Cape Coast-based dancehall artiste Unruly Grank, to death. The court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Lodoh, sentenced the accused person to death by hanging. Reacting to the court’s decision, the mother of the deceased dancehall …

A 28-year-old teacher, Robert Yaw Agboshie Wayome, has reportedly committed suicide in his room at Bibiani Estate, a suburb of Bibiani in the western North region. The mother of the deceased said she became worried that her son did not come out of his room as he does every morning …