CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The Operation Vanguard contingent in the Eastern Region has arrested 31 foreign illegal miners in the Kwahu West Municipality. This follows reports that about 1,000 foreign nationals had connived with cocoa farmers and landowners in the area to mine illegally. The officer in charge of the Operation Vanguard team in …

A policeman at Manso Datano in the Ashanti Region has been arrested and detained for allegedly raping the wife of a suspect in custody. He has also been interdicted by the police administration. The policeman is said to have raped the victim several times at the Manso Datano Police Station …

The adage ‘never judge a book by its cover’ came to play when a young man hired a group of men at Sowutuom, in Accra to rob his former boss thinking they were armed robbers. The group members who were angry the man considered them robbers held him by both …

The Police Administration has confirmed that it has arrested, detained and interdicted a Police Chief Inspector for allegedly raping the wife of a suspect in custody. The inspector [name withheld] is alleged to have raped the woman at the Manso Datano Police Station in the Amansie South District of the …

The leader of pro-government Elephant Youth Association, Stephen Amoh alias Osono, has been arrested by the police for unlawful assembly in breach of the public order act. This was after he led the group to picket the private residence of the deputy chief of staff Francis Asenso-Boakye on Wednesday, 27 …

A suspected thief has been stoned to death by residents of Dichemso Plaza Hotel in Kumasi, after they accused him and two other’s of snatching a lady’s mobile phone. The suspect believed to be in his thirties was reportedly apprehended by some angry vigilante group who witness the scene around …

A lady who only gave her name as Gladys has narrated how a policeman raped her as a precondition to helping her bail out her husband. Gladys who hails from the Northern part of Ghana said she travelled to Nkwanta in the Oti Region upon hearing that her husband was …

A lady, who tortured her two-year-old stepson with electric water-heater, has been arrested and charged for causing harm. Abena Tawiah who claims to be 17 years, a resident of Afari in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region, allegedly plugged an electric water-heater until it reached a boiling point …

A 40-year-old man is fighting for his life after being stabbed in the scrotum over an alleged land dispute. The victim, Sampson Bortey, was said to have been attacked by some land guards on a disputed land at Gomoa Mafam near Buduburam in the Gomoa East District of the Central …

A 23-year-old man has been arrested after being accused of throwing faeces at five people on three different occasions. He allegedly threw liquefied faeces which he held in a bucket at passersby in three different locations between Friday afternoon and Monday night in Toronto. The accused, Samuel Opoku was arrested in the …