The Asante Akropong Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District has sentenced two friends to 10 years in prison each for conspiring, possessing firearms without authority, causing damage, and stealing in Sokoban, a suburb of Kumasi.
Charles Antwi alias Kojo Fosu, 49, a carpenter, and Francis Abobi alias Seaman, 41, a farmer, pleaded guilty and were convicted based on their own plea.
Police Detective Inspector Mr. Kwame Boakye Agyemang, prosecuting, told the court, presided over by Mrs. Gloria Mensah Bonsu, that the complainant, Ama Boakyewaa Asomani, a teacher at Kumasi Suame-Anomangye, reported a burglary at her residential apartment in Sokoban Ampabame by unknown persons.
On January 28, at around 7:00 p.m., the complainant returned home to find her door damaged and items stolen, including a 42-inch television valued at GHS 7,800, a Samsung ‘A’ 52 series phone valued at GHS 3,500, and a CCTV hard drive.
She reported the incident to the Ashanti Regional Police Intelligence Directorate (PID), and their investigations led to the arrest of the two convicts at their hideout in Effiduase-Asamang in the Sekyere East District.
A search of the suspects revealed one cutlass, a pinch bar, a glass cutter, two pliers, two pistols, a cartridge, and three smartphones.
In their caution statement, the suspects admitted the offense and were charged before the court.
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