The Koforidua Circuit Court “B” presided by Her Honour Mercy Addei Kotei on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 remanded into Police custody the 31 individuals who were caught mining illegally in the Eastern region under the guise of National Security. The plea of the accused persons was not taken. They are expected to reappear before the … Read more
The Eastern Regional Police Command says it will deal ruthlessly with individuals who will take the law into their own hands in the region. This warning comes in the wake of disturbances at Amanase, after youth in the area set ablaze a vehicle belonging to a traditional priest they accused of trying to abduct a … Read more
A 21-year-old unemployed, Isaac Mensah, has been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a Cape Coast Circuit Court II on two counts of unlawful entry and stealing. The convict broke into the room where the complainant was lodging and stole Techno Phantom 8, Huawei Nova 7i and two Itel and a Techno keypad phone, valued … Read more
The Sunyani Circuit Court A presided over by His Lordship Jojo Hagan, has for the second time remanded into prison custody, three police officers and three others accused of brutalizing Abu Bukari Gbahara, a suspect who was in custody, to death and secretly burying him. The six were charged on two counts of conspiracy to commit a … Read more
One person has been confirmed dead after a group of suspected robbers engaged in a shoot-out with police at Jacobu in the Ashanti Region. According to the police, the Jacobu patrol team, in their routine duties on the Anwiankwanta-Obuasi stretch at dawn on Tuesday, saw a group of four unmasked men who emerged from the … Read more
A businesswoman Anne Tamakloe has been charged for allegedly defrauding 51 Ghanaians to the tune of over GHc999, 600. She has been charged with two counts of defrauding by false pretence contrary to section 131 of Criminal Offences Act 1960, Act 29. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges at the Circuit Court in … Read more
The on-the-run Fetish priest in Kasoa Murder, whose name was given as Wazinga, has been arrested in another case of attempted ritual killing. Wazinga was arrested after attempting to perform money rituals for another person. It will be recalled that two teenagers, aged 16 and 17 respectively, on Saturday, April 3, 2021, were arrested for … Read more
A young woman in Koforidua in the Eastern Region escaped being lynched by a mob after she was deceived by a fraudster to send GHC2,000 for it to be doubled for her. The semi-literate lady who had already sent GHC1,000 in her mobile money wallet to the fraudster, went to a mobile money vendor near … Read more
Gunmen shot and killed a man in his 30s in a robbery attack on the Atebubu-Kwame-Danso highway, police in the Bono East Region has said. Police named the deceased as Elijah Asante, a headteacher with the Bantama S.D.A Basic School located in the Sene West District, about 143km from the regional capital Techiman. The victim … Read more
A notorious criminal called Ugbaudu WIlliams widely called Beleke has been shot dead by his accomplice Desmond in the Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State. According to spokesperson of the State Police Command, DSP Edafe Bright who confirmed the incident on Friday in Warri, Beleke and his colleague embarked on a robbery operation … Read more