crime

The Asokwa District Court has remanded two juveniles in custody, following their alleged involvement in the killing of a 16-year-old boy at Anloga, in...

A hacker has been sentenced to five years in a US prison for laundering the proceeds of one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts. Ilya...

A Hohoe Circuit Court has sentenced Olator Moses, an 18-year-old farmer, to 18 months in jail for stealing ‘akpeteshie’ (local gin) distillation pipes.He pleaded...

A 29-year-old electrician, Samuel Ledi, alias "Corn Dealer," has been sentenced to three years in prison by the Hohoe Circuit Court for stealing a...

The Executive Secretary of the National Media Commission, George Sarpong, has expressed concern over the recent assault on Joy News' Erastus Asare Donkor and...

Two individuals have been injured following a heated exchange and scuffle at the launch of the Gomoa Lome festival in the Central Region.The victims...

A 25-year-old man has been stabbed to death in an alleged brawl with unknown assailants at Tikrom Baroɔ, a community in the Ejisu Municipality...

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has destroyed over 150,000 kilograms (kg) of various illicit drugs seized between 2021 and 2024.The illicit drugs included cannabis,...

The Mpraeso District Court, presided over by Her Lordship Adwoa Akyemaa Ofosu, has remanded 26 people into police custody over the violent clashes that...

The 16-year-old boy who rammed into another car at East Legon, killing two people as a result, has once again been remanded.The juvenile, who...

Chaos broke out at a local radio station in Asante Akyem Agogo, Salt FM, on Thursday after National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate (PC),...

A 51-year-old driver, Chris­tian Kwaku Appiah, has been sentenced to four years in prison by the  Accra Circuit Court for stealing a taxi during a...

Six people have reportedly sustained cutlass wounds in violent clashes at Abetifi in the Kwawu Municipality of the Eastern Region.The chaos erupted after unknown...

The mother of 16-year-old Dennis Owusu Ansah, who was fatally stabbed in Anloga in the Ashanti region on Monday night, has called for justice...

Three teenage girls are currently in police custody for their alleged involvement in the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Dennis Owusu Ansah, a recent Basic...

One person has been lynched, and another is in critical condition after allegedly stealing a motorbike at Agona Kwanyarko in the Agona West District...

A horrific incident has shaken the Abrepo Asubonteng community in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region, leaving residents in shock and grief.An 8-year-old...

The Member of Parliament for Korle Klottey, Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, has condemned Saturday’s (November 2, 2024) armed robbery at the Adabraka Market, where four...

It has been over two weeks since some armed illegal miners ambushed Joy News’ environmental journalist, Erastus Asare Donkor, and three of his colleagues...

A 47-year-old Burkinabe, Boigouna Aloys, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court in Accra after being found guilty of killing his...

Unknown gunmen have attacked a vehicle transporting students of Kongo Senior High School (SHS) in Nabdam to Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region.The incident...

Residents of Adabraka, a suburb in Accra’s central business district, say they are living in fear following a daylight robbery over the weekend.Speaking with...

Retired Superintendent of Police Peter Lanchene Toobu has blamed the owner of Cabest Jewellery shop, which was robbed by armed men over the weekend...

The Ghana Police Service has launched a manhunt for the suspects involved in a daylight robbery at the Adabraka market.The suspects fled with sacks...

Yet-to-be-identified armed men flee with sacks of money in daylight robbery at Adabraka MarketArmed robbers have fled with sacks of money in a daylight...

Two men appeared in the Dansoman Circuit Court on Thursday, October 31, 2024, on charges relating to the unlawful possession of human body parts,...

A Former Black Stars player, Samuel Inkoom, Thursday deposited GH¢10,000, out of the US$8, 000 he was accused of having fraudulently taken from complainants,...

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 42-year-old man to 15 years in prison for robbing a taxi driver at gunpoint.Yaw Mensah, also known...

A currency trader who allegedly dishonestly appropriated various sums of money belonging to three traders has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.Mahamud Adams Sidik...

Four officers of the Lands Commission, charged with 77 criminal offences, are now facing trial at the Financial and Economic Division of the High...

A 22-year-old driver’s mate who broke into a school storeroom and stole various items has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by the Abuakwa...

Residents of Koforidua in the Eastern Region were left in shock after the lifeless body of a newborn baby was discovered in a gutter...

Two people have died with several others injured following a chieftaincy-related gun battle in a renewed violence in Bawku.Reports suggest the incident follows the...

Gunmen have reportedly shot eight people dead after blocking the Bolgatanga-Tamale highway near Gbimsi, a community close to Walewale.Accra-based Citi News reported the incident...

The gang of men who smuggled almost £4.5 million worth of cannabis hidden in sacks of Gari powder from Ghana to south Essex have...

An Accra High Court has charged a 20-year-old interior decorator, Pearl Agbomadzi, with murder.This is in connection with the death of a 74-year-old British...

The family of a 72-year-old who was murdered last Saturday by unknown assailants while returning from farm is demanding a thorough investigation from the...

An okada rider has allegedly been murdered at Tepa Asuhyea in the Ahafo Ano North municipality of the Ashanti region.The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old Antwi...

A 35-year-old mother, Mena Efua, is alleged to have sold her two-week-old baby for GH₵300 at Nkotompo, in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western...

A 30-year-old washing bay attendant at Booboobo in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, has been sen­tenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling...