CRIME & PUNISHMENT

E/R: Operation Vanguard arrests 20 suspected illegal miners

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 …

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Court jails 6 men who flogged boy in viral video, fined GHC1,200 each

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 …

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Photos+Audio: Woman, 22, found dead in lover’s room

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 …

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Missing Takoradi girls: Nigerian authorities arrest wanted suspect

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 …

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‘It was 419, I did not mean to rob her’ – Suspect

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. …

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Dismissed police officer among arrested robbers

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 – …

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Bono: 2 carjack taxicab; shoot, kill 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 …

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[VIDEO]: 75-year-old woman ‘buried alive’ at Wiawso

The life of a 75-year-old woman was cut short when she was mauled to death by a tractor clearing a piece of land for a school project. Madam Adwoa Fomwaa, a resident of Wiawso, a farming community near Obuasi in the Ashanti region was harvesting her crops to pave way …

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3rd pick-up vehicle snatched at gunpoint in Tamale

Another pick-up vehicle has snatched in Rambo style within the Tamale Metropolis bringing the number of missing vehicles in similar fashion to three. Sources reveal to MyNewsGh.com that the latest vehicle belonged to the Northern Regional Director of the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo), Abdul Hakeem Yahaya which taken away from …

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