CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The Ashanti Regional Police Anti-Robbery Squad after a successful intelligence-led operation has shot dead two members of a notorious armed robbery gang. After a gun battle on the road from Abodom-Koniyaw, near Bekwai where the robbers had blocked the road with wooden logs to rob some market women, the Police …

The main suspects in the murder of 39years old Francis Dawson who was set ablaze at Fiifi Pratt, a suburb of Gomoa Nyanyano in the Gomoa East has been arrested by the police. The suspects including two women Rose Essel Cobbah, and Kyeremaah Vernice who had relocated to Fetentaa, a …

Two of the suspected armed robbers who asked travellers to pray for them after they robbed them on a VIP bus in the Western Region have been shot dead in a gun battle with Police. This was made known on the official Facebook page of the Ghana Police Service. According …

Three persons are in the grips of the Central East Police Command for their alleged involvement in the burning to death of 34-year-old Francis Dawson, a TV repairer at Fiifi Pratt, a suburb of Gomoa Nyanyano in October 2021. Police say the three persons Kwame Baah Mensah 47, Vernice Kyeremeh, …

The Ghana Police Service has announced that it has arrested the armed robbers involved in a robbery on a VIP Bus that was bound for Kumasi, from Takoradi, on Sunday, February 20, 2022. The police statement said that two of the robbers, who have all come to be known as the ‘pray …

The father of two teenage sisters, who allegedly plotted a fake abduction in order to demand a GHc20,000 ransom from their family at Morso, near Juaso, in the Asante Akyem South District, has expressed shock that his daughters could collude to do such a thing to them. The two, 16 …

A 12-year-old girl living with her parents at Mfensi near Abuakwa in the Ashanti Region has allegedly committed suicide. It is being rumoured that the young girl, an epileptic, drank a bottle of weedicide to end her life. The police at Abuakwa are yet to establish the cause of death. …

A 26-year-old church drummer who had sex with a six-year-old girl at a church office at Laterbiokoshie, a suburb of Accra, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Nathaniel Ayiku pleaded not guilty to defilement. The court presided over by Mrs Christina Cann, however, found …

The Police have arrested a man for staging a robbery attack with the plan to use a sum of GHS69,000 belonging to his bosses to travel abroad. In a statement posted on the official Facebook page of the Ghana Police Service, it says the suspect of the fake robbery attack …

The Ghana Police Service has said that its officers in the Upper East Region have shot and killed a suspected robber during a shootout at Nyariga Forest, near Bolgatanga. According to the Police, the suspected robbers, three in number, were engaged by its officers on patrol, in a shootout, after intelligence gathered …