Tag Archives: robbery

    The Koforidua Circuit Court B has remanded into police custody four military men, an Immigration Officer, and a private security man for armed robbery at Akyem Akanteng in the Lower West Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region. The accused persons are Sergeant Mensah Dominic 41 years, and L/Cpl …

A Suspected thief believed to be in his middle 30s has been beaten to death at Alico a suburb of Kasoa Ofaakor in the Awutu Senya East Municipality in the Central Region. Information gathered by Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan indicates that the deceased attempted to rob some people at knife …

CCTV footage of armed robbers who attacked the KK Gold buying agency in Tarkwa has been released. In the footage, three of the robbers entered first with two having backpacks on, followed by two others. They ordered the workers to lie down at gunpoint which they complied. Those who were …

A 24-year-old unemployed man had the shock of his life when an Adentan Circuit Court sentenced him to 25 years imprisonment for causing harm and attempted robbery. This was after the Court had found Lamin Sissy guilty of the charges. The Court presided over by Mrs Sedinam Awo Balokah sentenced …

Ghana has started assembling Cash-in-Transit (CIT) armored trucks to keep the country’s banks’ movement of large sums of money secure and impervious to robbery assaults. The first four vehicles that DIHOC- KE­NAKI Manufacturing Company Limited (DIKMAC) equipped at its armored vehicle assembling facility at Burma Camp in Accra are now …

Five persons, including a pregnant woman have been remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court for their involvement in the robbery of a Chinese national at Caprice in Accra on December 9, this year. They have been accused of robbing the Chinese woman of GHC410,000, $8,000 and two …

The Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has promoted with immediate effect, the police officer shot by a gang of robbers during a special operation. The police officer promoted from the rank of Corporal to Sargeant was part of a police team that engaged in a shoot-out with the …

An Asian woman has reportedly been shoot in a daylight robbery at Caprice a suburb of Accra. A viral video sighted by GhanaWeb showed some pedestrians helping the woman who had been shot get to the nearest hospital. The victim was bleeding around her left arm. One of the men who came …

Even though there was violence everywhere in the 1980s and 1990s, armed robberies in Ghana were extremely rare. Although I drove a cab and a trotro in Accra and Cape Coast, I never encountered any armed robbers there. It was after traveling from Ghana to Nigeria in the early 1980s, …

The Chief of Ejura Traditional Area, Barima Osei Hwedie II, has destooled one of his sub-chiefs for allegedly aiding some nomadic herdsmen in suspected armed robbery attacks in the area.   The chief of Miminaso No2, Nana Obri Yeaboah was destooled on Sunday November 27, 2022 following the killing of …