Crime
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[Nkoranza chaos] Police identified deceased suspect through laptop left at robbery scene
It has emerged that Police officers who had been called to a robbery scene at Nkoranza identified the now deceased suspect Albert Donkor through a laptop he and his alleged gang had left at the crime…
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Ghanaian jailed 9 years by US court over $36m scam, to repay US$2.9m
Three months on from when he was convicted for money laundering, a US-based Ghanaian, Fred Asante, has been jailed 9 years by a court in the Southern District of New York in the United States. Initia…
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Court fines 5 elders ¢12,500 for ‘illegally’ installing a chief
The Sekondi High Court has found some five elders guilty of interfering in the chieftaincy affairs of the Brempong Yaw Ntwea Royal Family, in the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipality of the Western Region…
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Special Prosecutor ‘slaps’ former PPA boss with 17 charges
The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has charged the former Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Adjenim Boateng Adjei. The charges, according to a statement signed b…
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Gang linked to kidnapping, robberies and rape of women at Adenta arrested
Three suspects who have been linked to a series of robberies, rape, and kidnapping at Adenta and its environs have been arrested by the police, MyNewsGh reports. Mastermind of the criminal gang Richm…
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SHS teacher sentenced to 15 years for raping student
Tamale High Court has sentenced a 34-year-old teacher of Sawla Senior High Schools in the Savannah Region to 15 years in prison with hard labour. Ernest Ocloo, a mathematics teacher, was sentenced fo…
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Driver drags 22-year-old woman with his car over MoMo brouhaha
A Yango driver believed to be in his 30s is in the grips of the police after he was arrested for dragging a passenger in front of her house after the two got into a disagreement over a change of GH¢8…
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Grieving Nkoranza youth invade Police station, free suspects in custody
Some irate youth in Nkoranza in the Bono East region have attacked the Police station in the area freeing at least three suspects in custody. The youth who are protesting the death of 28-year-old tr…
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15 accused of defrauding Koforidua residents freed
The Circuit Court in Koforidua has acquitted and discharged 15 people, accused of posing as representatives of QNET Marketing Company, to defraud residents of Koforidua, in the Eastern Region. They a…
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Man slashes his 56-year-old girlfriend with a machete for denying him sex
A 56-year-old woman, Akua Baduwa, has allegedly been slashed with a machete multiple times by her boyfriend, Bob, aged 45, for refusing him sex. The woman is currently receiving treatment at the Abur…