Tag Archives: ARREST

A Lupane villager who took advantage of and raped a mentally challenged teenage girl with whom he was herding cattle, has been jailed for 16 years. Hwange regional magistrate Collet Ncube said Jonathan Sibanda, aged 37, of Mateteni village under Chief Mabhikwa took advantage of the girl’s condition when he …

A 49-year-old man, Eric Richard Ashie has been remanded into police custody by the Sowutuom Magistrate Court for shooting and injuring three persons during a funeral ceremony at Joma, in the Ga West District. The victims of the shooting incident are Kamal Nurideen, 13, who sustained a bullet wound to …

A final year male student of Saviour Senior High School in Abuakwa North Municipality of the Eastern Region is in Police custody for assaulting a security man in the school. The student was arrested on Saturday evening few minutes after the incident and has since been in Police cells at …

Assistant Headmaster of Ejisu Senior Technical High School has been arrested and detained by police for detaining two students in his office. The students were locked up overnight for allegedly stealing an electric stabilizer belonging to the school. One of them, who attempted suicide whilst in the office, has been …

A Zimbabwean journalist known for exposing alleged government corruption appeared in court on Wednesday and is reappearing today alongside an opposition politician with whom he is accused of conspiring to mobilize anti-government protests planned for July 31. Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume are charged with “incitement to participate in a …

Two unidentified suspects have been arrested by a military patrol team with four locally manufactured guns and other weapons in their possession at Kojokura, a suburb of the West Gonja Municipality in the Savannah Region. They are alleged to have aided and escorted two fully loaded KIA trucks with people …

Two men were killed and seven others injured during an alleged robbery at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday. According to Russel Meiring of ER24, the robbery was said to have taken place in the cargo area outside the airport in Kempton Park, Johannesburg.   “ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived …

A man is behind bars after being found with two bags containing what he says was his dead father’s bones that he had dug up from his grave site, North West police have said. Fikille Modukanele, 28, appeared in the Molopo Magistrate’s Court on Thursday on a charge of violation …

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dismissed the warrant arrest of Samuel Adams Mahama by Interpol, describing it as a political PR gimmick by a desperate Akufo-Addo government. According to the party, Interpol red alert is for only fugitives who have escaped arrest or sentencing. Speaking to Joy News monitored …

The Enugu State Command has arrested one Effiok Umo and his wife, Nnenna Umo, both of Okwojo Ngwo, Udi LGA, for allegedly abusing and assaulting their twelve (12) years old daughter, Mercy Umo, after she fell asleep while slicing onions for the food they were preparing.     A statement from …