CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Three Chinese nationals have been arrested for allegedly engaging in illegal mining at Fahiakobo, a town in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti Region. The three were arrested on Monday, January 6, 2020, by the Operation Vanguard Ashanti Forward Operating Base (FOB), led by Officer Commanding (OC), Captain AD …

Three persons, a man and two women are currently battling for their lives as a result of gunshot wounds they sustained following an armed robbery attack on them at Salom-Madagbe near Koluedor in the Ada West District of the Greater Accra Region. According to residents, four armed robbers who disguised …

The offices of the Electoral Commission and the Ghana Water Company in Winneba in the Effutu Municipality of the Central Region have been burgled by suspected robbers. Speaking to mynewsghana, the Municipal Director of the Electoral Commission Madam Emilia Ama Akotia said four well-built robbers reportedly managed to tie up the …

The Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra is known to be a hub for scammers. Thieves, who pose as traders, are either producing a knock version of almost anything genuine or making consumers pay for products they never get. From luxury bags to whatever the fad is, they have it already …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …