CRIME & PUNISHMENT

About five acre marijuana farm at Anum in the Eastern region has been destroyed by Police personnel deployed from the  Regional police Headquarters. Starr News has gathered the weed farm located in a secluded bush was destroyed Thursday September 26,2019 after intelligence by the Drug Law Enforcement Unit at the …

Some 180 condemned prisoners are languishing on death row at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison because successive Presidents had, since 1993, refused to sign their death warrants. The condemned prisoners include 174 men and six women, with many of them being sentenced to death by hanging for murder. The Nsawam …

About twelve (12) serving soldiers including a senior officer have been fingered in the foiled coup d’etat and are currently being interrogated over their alleged involvement, MyNewsGh.com reports. According to sources available to this portal, some of them were actually informants and will be treated as such while others were …

Six out of the seven accused persons facing trial over the alleged killing of two police officers at Kasoa in the Central region have been discharged by the court today. Six out of the 7 accused persons arraigned over  the killing of the two police officers at Kasoa in the …

Information reaching DGN Online indicates that a Toyota pickup with registration number GN 606 -18 belonging to the Salaga area Volta River Authority (VRA) has allegedly been stolen by unknown persons. The said pickup disappeared from the residence of the VRA company at Kanyitipe , a suburb of Salaga in …

Some dismissed Level 100 Students of the forty-six Colleges of Education in the country are reportedly attempting suicide. One of the affected students in Assin South in the Central region has reportedly committed suicide by drinking poison. Another student at Koforidua Asokore SDA College of Education told Starr News she …

Three alleged coupists arrested in Ghana recently have been charged with five counts by the Kaneshie District Magistrate’s Court. The three, Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm; Ezor Kafui and Mr Bright Allan Debrah Ofosu (aka BB or ADC) were charged with conspiracy to commit crime, to wit, manufacturing of arms and …

The three individuals who are being held for attempting to attack the Presidency have been hit with five charges. The charges do not include treason as was earlier thought per the government statement. A government statement Monday said they planned to distabilise the country and also attempted to attack the …

A Ghanaian soldier has reportedly committed suicide after he caught his wife in bed with another man. The 29-year-old Prince Yeboah Wiredu, who worked with the United States military, is said to have committed suicide on September 11 because he couldn’t stomach what his wife did. According to Irene Selina …

A top military officer and other junior rank soldiers have fingered in the foiled coup attempt have been arrested according to Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. The Minister was reacting to the triviality slant given to the arrest by security operatives indicating that the serving soldiers are currently in …