CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Two police officers have been shot dead by suspected armed robbers at Aplaku Kasoa in the Central region Wednesday afternoon. The officers, with the Kasoa divisional command, were engaged in a gun battle with the suspected robbers after they gave them a chase upon a tip off. One of the …

The two men nabbed by police operatives for allegedly engaging in a recruitment scam into the police service have pleaded not guilty to three counts of defrauding by false pretence. Bernard Kwesi Amanor-Wayo, 47, and Emmanuel Sackey, 55, were arrested on August 23, 2019 at the Golden Tulip Hotel in …

Seven Chinese nationals suspected of mining illegally in the Western region have been arrested. The Operation Vanguard team picked up the seven in a day-long patrol conducted Monday in the general area of Aniamote in the Wassa Akropong District. Li Jiaming, 45, Qin Weida, 45, Yang Rong, 37, Lixu Rong, …

A 33-year-old man has been arrested by the Police in Akatsi at a village called Bekpo located in the Akatsi South District of the Volta Region for allegedly killing a baby girl hours after she was given birth to, by his wife. Amidu Ibrahim was arrested after the wife and …

A young man believed to be in his 20s has been allegedly killed at Suame Market in the Suame Municipality. The boy was found hanged with school cardigan trouser behind a corn mill wooden structure at the market. He was allegedly beaten and butchered before being hanged by his attackers. …

A uniformed policeman was on Thursday, August 26, 2019 arrested by police at Esaase-Manhyia near Ahwerewa near Nkawie in the Ashanti Region for leading a 3-man robbery gang. Lance Corporal Evans Ahenkan of Court Unit with service number 46788 with two of his accomplices were said to have been arrested …

Operation Vanguard personnel in the Eastern Region on Sunday morning at about 02:00 hours arrested 20 suspected illegal miners during a search operation in the general area of the Kibi Zongo Township. The illegal miners made up of 15 Nigerians, a Bissau Guinean and four locals had been handed over …

A Magistrate court in Enchi in the Western North Region on Thursday, August 22, 2019 has sentenced six men who mercilessly flogged a young man recently for allegedly flouting the chief’s orders to 40 days imprisonment with hard labour. The convicts, Bullu Adjei, Alfred Ban in Obboye, Kwasi Kah, Stephen …

A 22-year-old woman, identified as Vera Adu, has been found dead in her boyfriend’s room at Adu Gyemfi near Sowutwom in the Greater Accra region. Unconfirmed reports have it that the boyfriend allegedly poisoned her when she paid a visit to him. It is, however, unclear what would trigger the …

Operatives of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested a man accused of being involved in kidnapping Ghanaian girls to Nigeria. According to The Nation, the suspect Chika Nnodim is believed to be part of a cross border criminal gang including kidnapping and have …