Crime
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Police deployed on 24-hour patrols in the Upper East Region highways to curb robbery menace
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has given approval to the Upper East Regional Police Command to immediately establish a 24-hour Regional Highway Patrol Unit in that …
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Court jails taxi driver for speeding off with police officer dangling on his bonnet
A Ghanaian taxi driver, Daniel Ofori, has been sentenced by the Koforidua Circuit Court B to two years imprisonment for resisting arrest and moving a vehicle for a distance of 300 meters whiles a pol…
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[Abesim murder] Police uncover where suspect buries victims’ intestines
The Ghana Police Service has discovered a spot where the suspect in the Abesim murder case buried the intestines of his victims. A statement to update the public from the police said that they had di…
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Man struck by mysterious stroke after judge pronounced his sentence
An unemployed driver, Emmanuel Appiah, has been struck by ‘stroke’ after he was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a court in the Central Region for stealing. According to Emmanuel’s sister-in-…
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Head of racist group Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio jailed for burning stolen Black Lives Matter flag
Enrique Tarrio, leader of the US far-right racist group, Proud Boys, has been sentenced to prison for burning a Black Lives Matter flag. Enrique Tarrio who has led the far-right group since 2018, bur…
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U.S. hands drug lord Eduardo over to Mexico
Former Mexican drug cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Felix was handed over by the United States to Mexico on Monday to face criminal charges, including organized crime, after serving time in a U.S. fed…
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[Abesim murder] He cooked and ate with my children, I never suspected him – Father of victim
Yeboah Asuama, the father of a 15-year-old boy who was allegedly murdered and his body butchered and stored in a fridge, says never for once did he ever think the suspect, Richard Appiah could commit…
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Police arrest QNET agents for using man as scamming tool
The Adweso District Police Command has effected the arrest of two persons who are agents of QNET in the Eastern region. Their crime is that they had allegedly held a 26-year-old man against his will,…
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[Abesim murder] The story so far
The discovery of dead bodies in the room of a 28-year-old architect near Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono Region was one of the major news items over the weekend. There has been two arr…
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34-year-old shot dead amid intense clash between angry youth and mining operators at Manso Keniago
A 34-year-old man has been shot to death in a clash between workers of a mining firm and some angry youth at Manso Keniago, a suburb in the Ashanti region. The man identified as Elijah Timenkeh was r…