CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Kumasi hotel shooting: Suspect remanded, bench warrant issued for wife’s arrest

The prime suspect in the shooting to death of a restaurant operator on New Year’s Day, has been remanded into police custody by the Asoka District Court. Edwin Awuku, described as a chief driver of Bank of Ghana in Kumasi, who allegedly shot Comfort Owusu Afriyie at Cedar Crescent Hotel …

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Kumasi killing: Prime suspect makes maiden appearance in court

The prime suspect in a shooting incident at a hotel in Kumasi that led to the death of a restaurant operator will make his maiden appearance in court on Friday. Edwin Awuku, 42, said to be a Driver for the Bank of Ghana, will appear before the Asokwa District Court in Ashanti …

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3 persons confess to stealing from GRA

At the Kpetoe District Court on Wednesday, 8 January 2020, three persons arrested by the Kpetoe District Police for stealing from the Ghana Revenue Authority premises in Kpetoe confessed to the crime. The three, Badawusu Kwadzo James aged 18, Bedu Godsway aged 21 and Agbowali John aged 21, pleaded guilty …

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YENDI: Police arrest kidnapper of 10-year-old boy

Police have arrested Mahamadu “Fulani” a herdsman who kidnapped a 10-year-old boy from Kintampo and demanded a ransom of twenty thousand Ghana Cedis (GHS20,000.00) before his release, in Yendi. On 6th January, 2020 at Kintampo in the Bono East Region, suspect Mahamadu Fulani took the boy along with cattle belonging …

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Scores of ‘violent’ MenzGold customers arrested at NAM1’s residence

About 100 aggrieved customers of the defunct gold-dealership firm MenzGold have been arrested by the police in Accra. Police say the demonstrating customers who forced their way into the plush Trassaco Estate Wednesday to demand their locked-up investments from owner of the firm, Nana Appiah Mensah, were acting violently. They …

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Ghana Card: 5 arrested for registration malpractices

Four officials of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and one other person have been arrested by the police for engaging in various registration offences and malpractices during the ongoing mass Ghana card registration exercise being conducted in the Ashanti Region by the NIA. The arrests, which occurred between 3rd and …

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Man busted for shooting girlfriend in hotel room

A 42-year-old man identified as Edwin Awuku has shot and killed her girlfriend at the Ceder Cresent Hotel at Danyame, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region where they checked-in together police investigations have revealed. According to the Police, there was no armed robbery attack at the Hotel as was reported by …

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Man, 42, shoots dead girlfriend at Cedar Cresent Hotel

A 42-year-old man known as Edwin Awuku has been arrested by the Kumasi Police after he shot dead his girlfriend at the Cedar Cresent Hotel at Danyame. Police Investigation into the alleged murder revealed that the deceased was shot and killed by the suspect after he reported the incident as …

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