Crime

‘Assin North MP’ faces criminal charges in court

The woes of the deposed National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North in the Central Region, James Gyakye Quayson, are...

Convict tells court economic hardship forced him to commit crime

 A 40-year-old tiler, Evans Hofe, has told the Hohoe Circuit Court that the country’s economic hardships compelled him to steal. Hofe appeared in court on...

Four chiefs and queen mother cited for contempt of court

Four chiefs and a queen mother of the Kwatwoma Traditional area, Jaman South Municipality of the Bono Region, have been cited for contempt of...

Man, 23, arrested for having sex with goat

A 23-year-old man at Kentey, a farming community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region, has been arrested by the police for...

Woman in police grips for burning niece with pressing iron

Social workers in Ho have taken a nine-year-old girl into care after she was burnt with a hot-pressing iron by her aunt with whom...

Okada rider, two others jailed for stealing a flat screen television

The Assin Fosu District Magistrate Court, presided over by His Worship Abdul Majeed Illiasu, has convicted three accused persons brought before the court for...

Statement: Attack on Immigration officers at Aflao Beat 6

Management of the Ghana Immigration Service has received with great displeasure the report of an attack on a team of Immigration Officers on patrol...

EOCO chases three suspects over fraudulent activities

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has launched a manhunt for three suspects over various crimes. EOCO has identified the suspects as Ezekiel Mensah...

Two steal money at fire scene

Two people have been apprehended for allegedly stealing an amount of GH¢21,000 from a fire scene. Suspects Emmanuel Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar allegedly stole the...

Man remanded for insulting Akufo-Addo

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into police custody a 40-year-old tile setter for insulting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Raphael Okoe Ankrah, also known...

ECG drags 2 electricians to court for fraud, forgery

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has dragged two electricians to court for using the bar code of a dead employee to defraud unsuspecting...

2 lynched, one amputated for stealing mobile phone at Ahanta West

Two persons have been lynched at Beaho in the Ahanta West Municipal District of the Western Region for allegedly stealing a mobile phone. The two...

Two charged for contempt, insulting the court

The Tamale District Court has slapped two men with two charges for disrespecting the court. The duo, Ahmed Abdul Fatawu Yamba, aged 32 and Nana...

NDC decides: 8 people arrested for various offences

The Police have arrested eight (8) suspects throughout the country for various election-related offences and disturbing the peace during the Presidential and Parliamentary Primaries...

NDC decides: Man arrested for allegedly attacking police officer at Krowor

A man, believed to be in his early 30s, was on Saturday evening arrested for allegedly attacking a police officer at the polling centre...

Radio station manager arrested for alleged stealing

The General Manager of a private radio station in Takoradi, Godfred Mpusu, also known as Nyankonto, was Friday afternoon arrested by the police for allegedly stealing GH¢23,500 belonging to...

NDC Primaries: Secretary’s car vandalised, accreditations stolen at Kasoa [Video]

Unknown thugs have vandalised the vehicle of Awutu Senya East National Democratic Congress (NDC) Secretary, Amadu Tuariq. The incident occurred on Friday evening ahead...

Mother arrested for dumping newborn baby into school toilet

A 22-year-old woman, Adwoa Appiah, is in the grips of Ajumako District Police Command for allegedly dumping her new born baby into a school...

Attorney General justifies retrial of Afoko’s case

Attorney General Godfred Dame says he disagrees with the opinions that the human rights of murder accused Gregory Afoko will be infringed upon if...

Two jailed 7 years for stealing

A Dormaa-Ahenkro Circuit Court has convicted and sentenced two persons to seven years each with hard labour for conspiracy to commit a crime and...

Court ‘throws out’ Ato Essien’s motion to renegotiate GH¢60million payment 

The High Court in Accra has rejected an attempt by the founder of the defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, to renegotiate a GH¢60...

Ato Essien pays GH¢4m ahead of today’s sentence motion hearing

Former Chief Executive Officer of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, has paid GH¢4 million to the state ahead of his custodial sentence hearing...

Police on manhunt for suspects who lynched 2 over witchcraft accusations

Police are on a manhunt for some suspects allegedly involved in the lynching of two people accused of practising witchcraft at Zakpalsi in the...

NSS teacher remanded for defiling 3 pupils

A Bibiani Circuit Court has remanded a 24-year-old National Service person to three weeks in police custody for allegedly defiling three pupils in the...

Man, 27, on the run after defiling 12-year-old girl at Weija

A 27-year-old man is on the run after allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl at Choice in the Weija -Gbawe Municipality of the Greater Accra...

NDC communicator fined GH¢3,600 over attack on Dagbon FM journalist

The District Court in Tamale, presided over by his Worship Amadu Issifu, has slapped a GH¢3,600 fine on former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Northern...

Three arrested for destroying NDC vehicle

Former Deputy Information Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, is very hot following the arrest of three of his supporters at Abura Asebu Kwamankese in the...

Kumawood actor narrowly escapes lynching over alleged phone theft

Kumawood actor, Emmanuel Afriyie, popularly known as Adanko, has recounted how he narrowly escaped lynching over an alleged phone theft. The incident, according to...

Court remands father for beating son with cutlass

The Assin Fosu District Court presided over by His Worship Abdul Majid Iliasu has remanded 34-year-old Robert Kwame Kobi into police custody for two...

Suspect tells court how policeman aided his escape from Manet cells

Pius Anundoabil Ayoma, 23, a private security man who escaped from the Manet Police Custody shortly after appearing in court on March 1, this...

Fake soldier who also poses as National Security operative arrested

The police have arrested a man who has been posing as a military officer with a fake service name WOII Samuel Owusu Dartey in...

Karaga youth on rampage over arrest of suspected ‘chief killers’

Some youth in the Karaga District in the Northern Region on Monday went on rampage and destroyed structures belonging to the New Patriotic Party...

Galamsey: Sub-chief, two foreign nationals arrested at Akyem Oda

The Akim Oda Divisional Police Command has arrested two foreign nationals and a sub-chief for allegedly engaging in illegal mining at Akyem Oda in...

NSS teacher, 24, arrested for defiling three pupils

The Bibiani Circuit Court has remanded a 24-year-old National Service Person at Sehwi Asawinso Methodist Primary B to three weeks into police custody for...

GIS intercepts 900 slabs of Indian hemp

Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at the Nyive border in the Volta Region have intercepted 896 slabs of suspected Indian hemp at...

Two lynched over witchcraft accusations in Northern Region [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Two Lynched Over Witchcraft Accusations In Northern Region Two persons have been lynched at Zakpalsi, a farming community in the Mion District of...

Ofosu-Ampofo, Kwaku Boahen’s trial adjourned pending stay of proceedings

The Accra High Court trying Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and Anthony Kwaku Boahen has adjourned the trial to June 1, 2023. This followed the attention drawn by...

Five arrested for attacking ECG staff in Eastern Region

The Eastern Regional Police Command has arrested five persons for allegedly attacking some officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) when they were...

I only touched Major Mahama’s trousers- Alleged killer tells court 

One of the 14 persons accused of killing Major Maxwell Adam Mahama has testified that he only touched the trousers of the military officer...

Two arrested in connection with attack on Dagbon FM journalist

Police on Monday, May 8, 2023, arrested the two people who allegedly attacked Abubakari Sadiq, a presenter with Tamale-based Dagbon FM. The duo attacked Mr...