CRIME & PUNISHMENT

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 …

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 44-year-old trader into police custody for allegedly robbing a businesswoman. Ebenezer Larbi pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and robbery. He told the Court that he and his accomplice did not mean to rob their victim but just played a “419” trick on her. …

In a sad report, a young lady has been flogged by her uncle and her uncle used a sharp cutlass to commit such atrocity. According to sources, she was flogged by the uncle because she expressed herself in an argument which involved her and her uncle. Per what we have …

It has been established that one of the three suspected armed robbers paraded Friday at the Koforidua Central Police Station is a dismissed Police Officer. Eric Agyei alias Kuma, 48, the dismissed officer and his accomplices – Samuel Appiah, a 35-year-old Wood Carver and Mutakilu Sadiq, 41, a driver – …

The police command in the Bono Region has commenced investigations into the murder of a taxi driver by two assailants who bolted with the taxicab at Wawase near Duayaw Nkwanta in the region.A police situation report cited by ClassFMonline.com said at about 1800hrs on Thursday, 22 August 2019, one Yaw …