Crime

Investigations by The Finder have revealed that Ghana’s image in the comity of nations has once again being heavily dented as the country failed another major test in the fight against drugs. The finder can report that 10 bags of suspected cocaine, each weighing 50kgs (500kgs in all) hidden in …

Speaker of Parliament Mike Oquaye has said he takes the allegations of visa fraud brought against three sitting MPs and one former legislator “very seriously”. They include: Richard Acheampong, MP for Bia East in the Western Region; Joseph Benhazin Dahah, MP for Asutifi North (Ntotroso) in the Brong Ahafo Region; …

The Somanya District Police Command have arrested two persons for circulating nude pictures of a 20 years former student of Yilo Krobo Secondary School. Prince Teye who was a boy friend of the 20 year former student of Yilo Secondary school Lydia Tetteh was in a relationship with Lydia which …

A 29-year-old fashion designer, Richard Isaac Dankyi, is standing trial for allegedly taking turns to have anal sex with three children, two males and a female. Dankyi, an uncle to the victims, aged between six and eight years, who appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, however pleaded not guilty to …

A social worker has been remanded in police custody by the Accra Circuit Court for allegedly breaking into the house of his benefactor and stealing his two Apple Ipads valued at Gh¢5,400 at Ashongman near Accra. The accused person, Zakaria Debe, is also alleged to have assaulted the house help …

Two men suspected to be armed robbers were reportedly shot dead by a police officer at Asankare in the Ashanti Region while they were trying to escape after allegedly stealing GHC580,000 at the office of a cocoa buying company during the Easter celebration. The suspects were purportedly shot dead from …

The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) community is mourning the loss of a 20-year-old student from Alexandria, Virginia, who was shot and killed in the Carver neighbourhood. Samuel Kwarteng was close to graduating with an engineering degree, according to friends. Police say Emmanuel Jordan, who is not a VCU student, shot …

Eastern Regional Police Command has revealed that sixty-three (63) people were murdered in 2016 in the region. The murder cases recorded even though frightening was a reduction by five compared to 68 murder cases recorded in 2015. The Eastern Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) George Alex Mensah, …

Suspected armed robbers made history in the country and returned a whooping amount of fifty one Thousand Nine Hundred Ghana cedis (GH¢51,900.00) they robbed from their victim at the weekend in the Upper West region who is reported to have invoked 8 deities to strike and kill anyone who will …

THE EASTERN Regional Police Command has arrested three Chinese and three Ghanaians supposed to be illegal miners at Denkyira, a village near Nkawkaw in the region. The operation, led by the New Juaben Municipal Police Commander, Superintendent Richardson Kumekor, led in the retrieval of four excavators, two pump action guns, …