Courts and Crime
30th October, 2010
The Half Assini District magistrate’s court on Monday remanded five suspected armed robbers into prison custody.
The suspects are Charles Abeiku Frimpong, 20, from Mankessim, Kojo Ibrahim Brenya ...
26th October, 2010
The Chairman of the Tarkwa-Nsuaem branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Mr Samuel Sackey, was overcome with emotion and shed tears when he visited the Tarkwa Central Prisons and ...
22nd October, 2010
The Madina District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent David Eklu has urged church leaders to help educate their members on personal and community security.
He said criminals are always ...
22nd October, 2010
The Nima Divisional Police yesterday undertook an exercise to impound vehicles that had not complied with road safety regulations.
They included commercial and private vehicles without spare ...
22nd October, 2010
The Cantonments Police in Accra are questioning a middle-aged man for allegedly forging the placement slip of his daughter who is due to enter Senior High School this year.
The man, whose name was ...
21st October, 2010
A 30-year-old man, has been arrested by the police for allegedly using the names of Kelvin Prince Boateng, the Ghanaian footballer, and other prominent personalities, including lawyer Sam Okudzeto and ...
20th October, 2010
THE joint security task force at the Tema Port yesterday intercepted 130 kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in four travelling bags.
The bags were among assorted goods in a container packed on a ...
11th October, 2010
There are 123 condemned prisoners on death roll in the country’s prison, the Chief Public Relations Officer of the Prisons Service, Courage Atsem has disclosed.
Speaking to the Times in Accra ...
8th October, 2010
Two suspected armed robbers were killed in an exchange of fire with the police at Teshie Tsui Bleao in Accra in the early hours of Wednesday.
Accra Regional Police Commander Rose Atinga said at ...
7th October, 2010
UNABLE to account for a loss of GH˘3,400 through the sale of products belonging to their employers two workers of a company decided to hatch a plan to cover up their theft.
The two, Emmanuel ...
27th September, 2010
THE Deputy Public Affairs Director of the Domestic Violence and Victim Supports Unit (DOVVSU), D.S.P. Cephas Arthur, has stressed the need to report all forms of domestic violence to the unit without ...
27th September, 2010
The Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has, upon a tip off, arrested seven people, believed to be Nigerians, involved in black marketing around the Accra airport.
They are Nurudeen ...
25th September, 2010
A TOTAL of 1, 126 people were killed in road accidents countrywide between January and August this year, Deputy Commander of Police Motor Transport and Traffic Unit Chief Superintendent Deborah ...
24th September, 2010
A pastor, Rev. Micheal Martey Marmah of the Lord of Nazareth Church at Teshie in Accra has been arraigned before an Accra circuit court presided over by Justice Kyei Baffour, for conspiracy and ...
23rd September, 2010
One person was seriously injured yesterday in a shooting incident which is suspected to be linked to a land dispute at Luom in the Dangme West district.
This was after some people, believed to be ...
21st September, 2010
The Tema Police has arrested a 28-years-old man for producing fake driver’s licences.
Daneil Botwe, whose shop is located right behind the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) office in ...
21st September, 2010
A 33-year-old woman has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for stealing a 10-month old baby.
Lydia Mensah, also known as Esi Tawiah, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Prosecuting, the ...
21st September, 2010
A TEAM of friends of Rev. Thomas Sydney Barnes is expected to arrive in the country sometime this week to assist the Police to locate the whereabouts of the missing American missionary.
The team ...
20th September, 2010
An unidentified suspected armed robber has been killed by police in a shootout at Klogoon, near Tema.
The man who was dressed in two smocks, two pairs of trousers, black shoes and a ‘Colly high’ ...
15th September, 2010
ASP Daniel Dzam-Tse, crime officer of the Tema Community Two Police Station, has warned that hotels found harbouring criminals will be closed down and their licences revoked.
He, therefore, advised ...