Courts and Crime
3rd October, 2012
A LANDLORD who collected money from two prospective tenants but failed to offer them accommodation with the excuse that their wives are quarrelsome has been convicted by the Amasaman Magistrate ...
17th September, 2012
The Managing Director of West Palm Investment Company, a hire purchasing company in Kumasi, was on Friday arrested by the police for allegedly swindling several people under the pretext of supplying ...
14th September, 2012
Mr Bismark Azumah, Assemblyman for Gbane, was on Tuesday detained by the Upper East Regional Police Command in Bolgatanga for alleged extortion but locals say he was arrested for his incessant ...
14th September, 2012
An 18–year old man, Bright Aikins who lives at Odorkor has found himself in trouble with the law for allegedly defiling a 14–year old pupil (name withheld) of Dunkwa–On–Offin Primary School. ...
12th September, 2012
The Sefwi Wiaso police have intensified their operations in the attempt to arrest members of an armed gang, now on the run, following the arrest of one of their accomplices, a 25- year old Fulani, ...
7th September, 2012
TWO armed robbers, who attempted to rob the Administrator of the International Central Gospel Church here, have been sentenced to 33 years by a Koforidua Circuit Court.
Francis Acquah, 20 also ...
7th September, 2012
A 39-year-old mason who stabbed his colleague to death with a broken bottle, two years ago, at Atonsu-Kuwait in Kumasi has been sentenced to death by hanging.
The verdict was passed by a Kumasi ...
6th September, 2012
A Police Officer stationed at the Tesano Police Divisional Command, Lance Corporal Selorm Mortey, yesterday sent his colleagues including his Commander running for cover when he run amok with a ...
6th September, 2012
Two young men, who could not control their libido and took turns to rape a 19-year-old lady, have found themselves in hot waters.
The two, Mohammed Moro and Mustapher Saani, both aged 25, appeared ...
6th September, 2012
THE sight of an innocent baby, sucking the breast of her dead mother by the roadside, has sent shock waves down the spine of residents of Mpenyinasa, near Agona Nkwanta, in the Western ...
6th September, 2012
‘The Apedwa Cannibal’, Eric Bekoe, who chewed the mouths and tongues of three minors has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in hard labour by a Koforidua Circuit Court.
The convict, a ...
3rd September, 2012
The Tema Police have described a forty-two year old trader who jumped from the fourth floor of the Gyewu towers, located within the Tema Light Industrial Area, as mentally derailed.
The police, ...
30th August, 2012
For misappropriating a total of $150,000 meant for the development of his community, the chief of Banka, a farming community in the Asante Akyem District of Ashanti, is in the arm of the ...
30th August, 2012
Three Fulani herdsmen have been arrested by the police for stealing 21 cattle at Forifori in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District of the Eastern region.
The suspects named as Mohammed Salle, 22, ...
30th August, 2012
Two Nigerians, Sunday Obaji also known as Benson, 34, petty trader; and Francis Onyenwere, 33, mechanic, have been arrested by the Tefle police for kidnapping a “Kayayo”.
Deputy Superintendent ...
17th August, 2012
Five people have been arrested by the police for allegedly stealing assorted items from shops in Accra Central and the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.
They are Justice Nambe, 18, Evans Dzimabi, 22, Patrick ...
17th August, 2012
The police on Wednesday morning, arrested 81 persons at Akoepe, near Ho in the Volta Region, in connection with the alleged kidnapping of Joe Osei, an 11-year-old boy.
Nine other persons suspected ...
8th August, 2012
A 45- year old man who posed as a police officer enlisting applicants into the police service has been arrested by the police pending prosecution.
Kwadwo Afriyie was allegedly charging ghc1, 200 to ...
21st July, 2012
A KUMASI circuit court presided over by Emmanuel Amo Yartey has sentenced a driver to 30 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbery.
His other two accomplices Nana Ama and Owura are now at ...
20th July, 2012
The Koforidua High Court yesterday sentenced two farmers to death by hanging for murdering their relative.
The two, Ayitey Tetteh, 55 and Ayitey Angmor, 61, who are brothers, pleaded not guilty to ...