Tag Archives: JAIL

US-based Ghanaian surgeon, Dr. Moses deGraft-Johnson who was indicted earlier this year for his alleged involvement in fraud has pleaded guilty to 56 counts of health-care fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and aggravated identity theft. deGraft Johnson who is said to be a relative to former Vice President under Hilla …

One of the suspects arrested after last Saturday’s clash some residents of Doba and Kandiga in the Upper East Region has been sentenced to six-months imprisonment for unlawful possession of a firearm. “He was arrested with one of the weapons but he could not produce any document to cover it …

A 39-year-old fisherman has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for interfering in the just-ended elections at the Sene West constituency in the Bono East region. Christain Nukpeta who a resident of Tato Bator is reported to have snatched a Parliamentary ballot box at one of the polling stations in …

A young man whose name was identified as  Richard Arku, alias ‘Dadabi has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a court in the Nkurakan in the Yilo Krobo municipality which was presided by Her Honour Mrs Mariam Affoh. According to reports, a young man who was butchered and goes by the …

A 30-year-old driver who had sex with his wife’s 11-year-old niece at Klagon in the Tema West Municipality, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for defilement. Michael Fotsu, charged with defilement, pleaded guilty. According to Fotsu, he was fast asleep but suddenly woke up …

The Agona Swedru Magistrate’s Court has sentenced two prisoners who escaped from lawful custody to 24 months imprisonment each. Kwesi Delad 27 and Isaac Marful 21, both unemployed, pleaded guilty to the charge of escaping from lawful custody and the court presided over by Mr Isaac Apeatu sentenced them on …

Three remand prisoners have broken Jail at Agona  Swedru Police Station in the Agona West Municipality of the  Central Regional. Sources reveal that the incident occurred at about 11 pm on Sunday when the police officers on duty realized that the three remand prisoners  Kwesi Delad 27, Jallo Yussfu, 38, …

16-year-old Abdallah Mohammed has finally gotten help from some benevolent individuals after his pathetic story of being thrown into jail for stealing GHS10. It would be recalled that MyNewsGh.com reported that Mohammed Abdallah was arrested and jailed for 25 for a crime he claimed knew nothing about. According to him, he was …

Former Real Madrid and Manchester City star Robinho is set to be jailed in his native Brazil, the Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights in the nation has said. The Brazilian international was convicted of rape in 2017, as outlined by The Guardian, with a nine-year jail sentence handed …

Issah Iddrisu, a driver, was on Monday sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for robbing a woman at gun point at Gbawe in Accra. Iddrisu, in his robbery attack, stabbed one Theophilus P Tetteh, the husband of the complainant, with a knife on his chest. He …