Crime

Tailor jailed 10 years for defiling seven-year old girl

A tailor believed to be in his early 30’s has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for having sex...

Customs officer killed in Burkina Faso, Police on alert for suspects

A customs officer who was at post in Burkina Faso has been killed following an attack six unidentified men. The customs post was also robbed...

Police impound gallon of wee bitters in Eastern Region

The drug Law Enforcement Unit of the Eastern Regional Police Command has impounded a gallon of “Wee bitters” and 12 slabs of dried leaves...

Notorious robber nabbed at Aflao

Julius Gbede, 23, alias “Bible,” said to be a notorious criminal, has been nabbed at his hideout at Agblazuime, a village on the Ghana-Togo...

‘White man’ flies down to arrest ‘sakawa’ boys who duped him of GHC 83 million

The police of Imo State in Nigeria, have arrested some fraud boys who defrauded a Danish man identified as Jeanette Brunsma, of €15,000 (GHC...

Hunter mistakes colleague for ‘fat grasscutter’; shoots him dead

A 26-year-old hunter has been gunned down by his colleague who mistook him for a healthy grasscutter at Femeso in Adansi North District of...

Audio: Mother of 9-yr-old girl who was defiled by teacher cries for help

Mother 9-year-old girl who was fingered by her teacher at new Kasoa Ofankor in the Central Region, Abena Badu is calling for help from...

Couple, two others held for narcotics supply

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a couple and two others, for allegedly supplying a quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. Abraham...

22-year-old jailed seven years for sexually molesting minor

A Circuit Court in Accra on Thursday handed down a seven-year jail term to Prince Aboagye, 22-year-old unemployed for having sex with an eight-year-old...

Unemployed man arrested for robbery and assault

The Police in Sunyani has arrested an unemployed young man, Samuel Antwi Boasiako, a resident of Baakoniaba, a suburb of Sunyani, for robbing and...

9-yr-old defiled by her teacher struggling to walk

A nine-year-old girl in the Central regional town of Kasoa is struggling to walk after she was alleged to have been sexually assaulted by...

Man murders wife over suspicion of infidelity

A 40-year-old man, Yaw Mensah, has allegedly murdered his wife, Adwoa Frimpongmaa after he suspected her of having extramarital affair. A co-tenant alerted the landlord after...

‘Bible’, ‘Stone’ arrested at Aflao over notorious crimes

Julius Gbede, 23, alias “Bible,” said to be a notorious criminal, and on the police wanted list since 2015, has been nabbed at his...

Life in Ghana prison is like living in hell – Ex-convict

Apart from your freedom that is denied you, life in Ghana prison is like living in hell, says ex-convict, Emmanuel Odoom. “The food you are...

KNUST student found dead on campus

A second-year Business Administration student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been found dead in his room at the...

Taxi driver arrested for attacking woman with machete

Police in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region, have arrested a taxi driver who reportedly assaulted a woman in her home with a machete...

Court fines two okada riders for breaking traffic regulations

The Wenchi Magistrate Court has fined two Okada riders GHC 1,800.00 each for the violation of the road traffic regulations. The accused Persons are Adams...

Photo+Audio:  Landguards inflict cutlass wounds on farmer

A 28-year-old farmer has been attacked by some armed men at Ahemadiya farm at Dromankesse in the Nkoranza North District of Brong Ahafo Region. The...

Obengfo doctor saves dying man in court

The director of Obengfo Hospital, a private medical centre in Accra, Dominic Obeng-Andoh, rescued a man who nearly died at an Accra High Court. He...

Berekum boy gets support; Child Rights NGO takes over case

The Ghana NGO Coalition on the Rights of the Child is seeking justice for the young boy allegedly shot at close range by a...

Car-stealing syndicate busted in Somanya

Police in Somanya, in the Eastern Region, have apprehended four persons suspected to be ringleaders of a car stealing syndicate in Somanya and its...

Teller, Cash Boy held after stealing 200K from Consolidated Bank

Two persons who allegedly conspired and stole an amount of GH¢200,000 from the Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited were on Tuesday put before an Accra...

24-year-old auto mechanic apprentice sentenced for stealing Gov’t vehicle

A Koforidua Circuit court presided over by Her Honour Mercy Adei Kotei has sentenced a 24-year-old auto mechanic apprentice Osarfo Richard to pay a...

More horrific photos emerge of Berekum boy who was shot

More photos of the boy who was allegedly shot at close range by a man who claimed he was trespassing on his property have...

Berekum police deny cover-up in trespass shooting case

Police at Berekum in the Brong Ahafo region has denied covering up for a suspect who shot a 15-year-old boy at Kato, near Berekum...

Abura Dunkwa: Chief linguist, wife beheaded by unknown persons [Audio]

A linguist at Abura Dunkwa, Okyeame Kwadwo Mensah, believed to be in his forties has been found dead in a pool of blood with...

Student nurse commits suicide

A female student of the Asante Mampong Nursing and Midwifery Training School in the Ashanti Region has allegedly taken her own life. The deceased is...

Unemployed jailed for stealing GH¢ 930.00

A twenty-four year-old unemployed, Alhassan Wala who broke into his victim’s room and made away with items valued at GH¢ 930.00 has been jailed...

Obengfo CEO pleads with High court to halt proceeding at lower court

An Accra High Court will on September 7, rule on an application, whether or not to stay proceedings against Dr Dominic Obeng-Andoh, Chief Executive...

Cal Bank Financial Officer jailed 4 years for stealing

A circuit court in Accra has sentenced an Accounts Officer to four years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing cash in the sum of...

PHOTOS: Assin Fosu Command wage war against criminals, arrest 3 drug dealers

As a way of reducing the crime rate in the Assin Fosu municipality, 3 suspected criminals, have been arrested in a swoop organized by...

Businessman in court over theft, money laundering

An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail of ¢700,000.00 with five sureties to a businessman for allegedly stealing ¢620,000.00 from the Frimps Oil Company. Two...

A-G not ruling out insider job in break-ins

Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Gloria Akuffo, is not ruling out the possibility of an inside job in a recent break-in at some offices...

Man dies in police cells; family accuse cops of torturing

A 40-year-old man who operates a drinking bar at Tepa in the Ashanti region has died in Police Cells. Collins Merz was arrested over a...

Court orders market women to sign bond of good behaviour for selling deadly puffer fish

The Donkorkrom magistrate court in the Kwahu Affram Plains district of eastern region has ordered two market women to sign a bond of good...

Court sentences Nigerian for snatching money bags

A 25-year-old Nigerian Chijioke Amadi was on Wednesday sentenced to a fine of GH¢2,400.00 by an Accra Circuit Court for snatching the bags of...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: Man in police grips for beating sons with electricity cable

A 35-year-old man, Kofi Konor Abusuapanyin, has been arrested by the Nkwanta Police for allegedly whipping his two sons with an electricity cable. The crime...

PHOTOS: Landguards brutalise, rape 35-year-old woman at Kasoa

A 35-year-old petty trader at Opeikuma, a suburb of Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East District of the Central Region, Christiana Ofori, has been...

Court orders forensic examination of Bishop Obinim’s signature

An Accra Circuit Court has ordered Bishop Daniel Obinim, the Founder of God’s Way International Church, to give samples of his signature for forensic...

Crime dips by 0.2% in 2017 – Police

The Ghana Police Service received a total of 201,936 complaints throughout the country in the year 2017 as against 202,276 the previous year. “This represents...