Crime

Bus conductor jailed for stealing sales

A 39-year-old bus conductor has been incarcerated to four-month imprisonment by the Ashaiman Circuit Court for disappearing with sales made. The convict, Kweku Asare, who...

Landlord in court for flogging married woman with belt

A 51-year-old landlord, Bassey Wilson, was on Wednesday arraigned in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly flogging a married woman with a...

PHOTO: Family hunts runaway father for impregnating mentally challenged woman

The family of a mentally challenged woman who was impregnated by an unknown man and was delivered of twins are hunting for the man...

Gun-wielding Chinese arrested in Operation Vanguard swoop on 22 illegal miners

Some 12 Ghanaians, nine Chinese and a Togolese suspected to be illegal miners have been arrested at sites by personnel of the Western Forward...

PHOTO: Arms dealer busted in Wa

The Upper West Regional Police Command has retrieved 35 single-barrel guns belonging to the Ghana Police Service, two locally manufactured pistols and cartridges from...

Corn Miller remanded for sexually abusing five year old niece

A Circuit Court in Accra on Wednesday remanded into Police custody a 21-year-old corn miller for allegedly having sex with his five-year-old niece at...

New scam hits Sekondi/Takoradi; Thieves pose as preachers

Unsuspecting persons in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis are falling prey to a new modus operandi that has been adopted by tricksters. Within a week, many persons...

Four busted at Tarkwa for robbing Chinese of gold dust, phones

Four persons are in the grips of the police for allegedly robbing two Chinese nationals at Efuanta, a suburb of Tarkwa in the Western...

Man who concealed 44 slabs of narcotic drugs in ‘kokonte’ arrested

A 38-year-old man who concealed 44 slabs of illegal drugs in ‘kokonte’ (dried cassava) has been arrested by the Police in the Eastern Region...

Mason remanded for defiling four-year-old girl

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into Police custody, a 48-year-old mason over allegations that he sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl at Odorkor-Tipper, a...

Police go after cemetery ritual organisers

The stool father of the Prampram Traditional Area, Numo Osabu Abbey, is assisting the Police in Tema in the investigation of a case involving...

26-year-old man high on tramadol allegedly rapes sister

A 26-year-old boy, Isaac Nkansah, a resident at Yakrakrom in the Western region, has allegedly raped his biological sister after he reportedly took tramadol. Nyankonton...

Planting for Food & Jobs fertilizer worth GH¢600,000 stolen

Seven officers of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in the Sunyani Municipality of the Brong Ahafo are under investigation for allegedly stealing...

Teenager handed 15-year jail term for illegally trading Tramadol

The Nsuta Circuit Court in the Sekyere Central District has sentenced a 19-year-old farmer to 15 years imprisonment for illegally trading in Tramadol. Dada Musah,...

Man fined GHC1,708 for stoning neighbour during quarrel

Gideon Dogbatse a Customer Care Provider has been sentenced to pay a fine and compensation of GH¢1,708 cedis for throwing a stone at his...

Two Russians in court for kidnapping

Two Russians who have been accused of kidnapping two persons at East Legon and holding them hostage for several months have appeared before an...

PHOTO: Woman burns palm of 3-year-old son for stealing food

A 30-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly burning the palm of her 3-year-old son with hot charcoal after she caught him taking food...

Man kills brother with stick

A slight misunderstanding that ensued between two biological brothers at Duadaso No. 1 in the Jaman North District of the Brong Ahafo Region has...

Plumber, 18, jailed for robbery

An Nkawie Circuit Court has sentenced an 18-year-old boy, Kwaku Acheampong, to 15 years in prison for robbing two women at Ahenema-Kokoben in the...

Tamale woman found with ‘wee’ and tramadol jailed 10-years

A 30-year-old hairdresser, who was arrested for possessing cannabis and sachets of tramadol without authority has been handed a 10-year jail sentence in...

Seventeen arrested in oil smuggling scheme

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) says it has in collaboration with National Security and the Ghana Armed Forces arrested 17 persons engaged in smuggling...

Technician remanded for defiling 11 year old girl

A 26 year old technician, Emmanuel Tetteh who allegedly defiled an eleven year old girl at Breman Asikuma was on Wednesday remanded into Prison...

PHOTO: Two suspected robbers arrested in Tamale

Two suspected armed robbers have been arrested by the police in Tamale for allegedly attacking and robbing two persons at Kanvili-Tuunayili, a suburb of...

PHOTOS: Security man killed by robbers

A 40-year-old man at Mankessim in the Central Region has been murdered by armed robbers early Wednesday dawn at Larbie Brothers Whorehouse where he...

Parents throw out 15-year-old girl for sleeping around with many men

The life of a 15-year-old girl has been left to the mercy of street boys and the weather after being ejected from home by...

AUDIO: Man butchers wife for denying him sex, locks her up

A 38-year-old farmer Kofi Abraham has allegedly butchered his wife at Oboum in Assin Fosu of the Central Region. An eyewitness narrating the incident to...

Two university students sentenced to death for murdering pastor

Two students of the Tamale Technical University (TaTU) have been sentenced to death by hanging for murdering the Head Pastor of the End Time...

Teacher who had countless sex with 15-year-old JHS girl gets bail

A 42-year-old teacher, who allegedly had countless sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old Junior High School (JHS) girl at Abokobi, has been granted bail by...

Police man kills 3 robbers, 4 escape with gunshot wounds

A police officer has allegedly killed three of seven armed robbers who attempted to rob some market women at Agosa, a town between Techiman...

Man kills mom & daughter over charcoal

A man, believed to be in his 30s, has committed a cruel crime by butchering a mother and daughter to death, following a misunderstanding...

Man caught having sex with a cow; Cow owner demands GHC 3,500 as compensation

A 25-year-old man, Kofi Sarpong, has been caught sleeping with a cow at Sefwi in the Western Region. The owner of the cow is demanding...

Police killing: Gov’t not to blame for delay in burial of 7 suspected robbers

Municipal Chief Executive for Asokore Mampong says government cannot be blamed for the delay in the burial of seven Zongo youth killed on suspicion...

Three-day-old baby allegedly murdered by parents

Residents of Essaman in Sekondi in the Western region are yet to come to terms over the alleged killing of a three-day-old baby by...

Two nomadic herdsmen arrested for robbery

Two nomadic herdsmen are in the grips of the Kwahu Mpraeso Police for allegedly engaging in a highway robbery. The two suspect Ibrahim Sambo and...

NACOB destroy Ghc400 million worth of illicit drugs

The Narcotic Control Board (NACOB) has destroyed narcotic substances estimated at GHC400 million. The drugs were burnt on the premises of the Bundase Military Training...

Strange spirit forcing Begoro residents to sleep early

Residents of Begoro in the Fanteakwa North District in the Eastern Region are being forced to retire to bed before 10:00 pm for the...

Obengfo doctor granted bail

Dominic Kwame Obeng-Andoh, the director of a private medical centre in Accra – Obengfo Hospital, who has been arraigned before an Accra Magistrate Court...

School dropout jailed 18 months for stealing ECG cables

An 18-year-old school dropout, Okey Seghou, has been sentenced by an Aflao Magistrate Court presided over by Frimpong Manso to eight months in prison...

Cocaine-turned-baking soda: DSP Tehoda reinstated, promoted to Chief Superintendent

The Police officer, who was wrongfully dismissed after she was cited in case of the cocaine exhibit that mysteriously turned into baking soda, has...

NACOB destroys drugs worth five hundred thousand cedis

The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has destroyed Five Hundred Kilograms (500kg) of Marijuana at the Bundase Military base in the Greater Accra region on...