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His infatuation with a woman 50 years his junior, caused repeated thief Trevor DaCosta Russell to steal jewellery to give to her.

Russell, 71, a farm labourer of Wilson Village, Lodge Road, Christ Church, admitted entering Ralda Maynard’s home as a trespasser and stealing jewellery worth $2 325 on May 28 this year. That was the value of one watch, six chains, six rings and five pairs of earrings.

The Barbados Police Service is investigating an incident at the Ball Park Events and Entertainment Centre, in Rising Sun, Christ Church on Saturday evening.

Police say that a report was made to District B Police Station, Boarded Hall, Christ Church indicating “that five patrons were robbed by two men armed with guns whilst playing recreation golf at an event at the Ball Park, Rising Sun, Christ Church”.

“The victims were playing recreational golf when the two assailants approached them armed with weapons. They robbed them of various personal possessions and money. They then made off without further incident."

The Asokore Mampong District Court in the Ashanti Region has for the second time remanded a police inspector for the alleged killing of his girlfriend, Victoria Dapaah.

26-year-old Victoria Dapaah also known as Maa Adwoa was allegedly killed by her boyfriend, Inspector Ahmed Twumasi on 20th April 2023 at Adum, a few meters away from her house.

During the first court appearance, the suspect confessed to committing the act but insisted that it was not his intention to kill “his lover”.

Appearing before the court for the second time after being on remand, the suspect has been formally charged with murder as the prosecution has received advice from the office of the Attorney General.

During the court proceedings, the head of legal and prosecutions in the Ashanti Region, ACP Kofi Blagodzi assured family members of the deceased present that the police administration is committed to ensuring that justice is served in the matter, as the office of the Attorney General has given its advice and the committal processes will commence during the next hearing.

ACP Kofi Blagodzi spoke to the media after the court proceedings.

“This is a very difficult moment. But as I indicated, now that the advice has come, we shall proceed with the trial. The police have taken a serious interest [in this case]. We are taking very much interest in this matter. The IGP wants to deliver, and the police have also delivered. We have given full assurance that this matter will travel to its last minute,” the Head of legal and prosecution in the Ashanti region, ACP Kofi assured.

Rapper called The Don from Up north robbed in the back of a taxi for his rolex..

Zakaraya Usman,30, a painter has received a 2 months jail sentence after he was found guilty of stealing four bibles, 124 membership forms and other items belonging to a church.

According to the Prosecution Counsel, the Chief Security of the Living Faith Church reported the theft case to the police after noticing that some items have been stolen.

The prosecution counsel continued that Usman who had trespassed into the church compound was accused of stealing three mini bibles, one big bible, 14 Caprisonne drinks, two bottles of water.

Other items reportedly stolen include 18 testimonial certificates and 124 church membership forms. He also stole security jackets, two shirts, two jackets, two handkerchiefs, two bags and some cash.

Investigations led to the recovery of the items from where he had taken them.

During his hearing in court, he admitted stealing the items and pleaded guilty to all charges levelled against him.

He was given a fine to pay or in default go to jail for two months. But the Judge warned him he was not going to be lenient with him if he should be caught and brought before him again.

Two men shed tears in an Adentan Circuit Court as they were each sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for attempted robbery, after brandishing a kitchen knife and demanding the victim's phone and money.

The victim, Yaw Richard Essel, managed to escape the ordeal, but his friends apprehended the accused individuals the following day.

Agoro Sheriff, 20, and Richard Kwame Kusi, 18, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and attempted robbery before Judge Mrs Sedinam Awo Balokah, convicted and sentenced them to 10 years of hard labour.

While awaiting the necessary documentation to begin their jail terms, the convicted individuals shed tears in the courtroom, with Sheriff reminding Kusi that their weeping would not change their fate.

Kusi, amidst tears, claimed innocence and stated that he had no knowledge of the crime, while Sheriff, seeking consolation, explained that he resorted to robbing someone's phone after being a victim of robbery himself.

Inspector Eric Ransford Abban, leading the prosecution, revealed that the complainant was Yaw Richard Essel, a trader residing in Legon, while the accused individuals were unemployed and lived in Madina.

According to the prosecution, on May 7, 2023, around 10:30 pm, the complainant was walking from Atomic Junction towards Legon Mall when Sheriff, accompanied by Kusi, shouted at him to stop.

Armed with a kitchen knife, Sheriff and Kusi demanded the victim's phone and money, but the complainant managed to escape narrowly.

The complainant's friends were informed of the incident and successfully apprehended the accused individuals the next day at Atomic Junction Bus Stop.

Formal charges were filed by the complainant, and investigations revealed that the day before the incident, Sheriff and Kusi had discussed their plans for a robbery operation in the area.

Kusi obtained a kitchen knife from his mother's kitchen and handed it to Sheriff for their intended robbery.

Source: Ghana Standard 

 The Agona Swedru Circuit Court in the Central Region, has sentenced two men to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing two Senior High School (SHS) students.

The convicts, Markvelly Kwame Wise, a carpenter, and Alex Aidoo, also known as password, a driver, were jailed five years each.

Wise and Aidoo, who were charged with robbery, pleaded not guilty.

Prosecuting, Police Sergeant Emmanuel Akonnor, told the court presided over by Mr Jona­than Nunoo that the convicts were residents of Gomoa Eshiem, near Mozano, in Gomoa.

The court heard that the com­plainants were Master Richard Awotwe-Quaye and Master Obed Wilson, day students of Mozano SHS.

Sgt Akonnor said the convicts, who are friends went to a private hostel, where the complainants lodged, and informed occupants there about an impending opera­tion.

The court heard that the con­victs told the occupants that there would be an operation by some persons at the hostel, and they (occupants) should pay monies for them to be exempted.

Sgt Akonnor said the com­plainants did not take the convicts serious, but they (convicts) later stormed the hostel wielding a machete and broke into the apart­ment of the victims.

The prosecution said Wise and Aido forcibly collected two laptops valued at GH¢3,700, and two mobile phones valued at GH¢2,500, and fled the scene.

Sgt Akonnor said the victims report­ed the case to the police, and the two convicts were arrested.

The prosecution said investi­gations revealed that the convicts sold their booty to Sam at Ag­ona Swedru, at a total cost of GH¢700 and shared the proceeds.

Sgt Akonnor said all attempts to arrest Sam for dishonestly receiving had failed, and the police were on his heels. 

 Source:GNA

The burglar who was deemed a menace to society was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his latest crimes yesterday.

However, Wayne Adrian "Pinchers" Lovell will serve just over two and a half years after the 11 years he had spent on remand and other deductions were taken into consideration.

TWO MALES have been apprehended for, allegedly, stealing an amount of GH¢21,000 from a fire scene.

Suspects Emmanuel Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar, allegedly, stole the money from a house, which was on fire.

The incident happened at Daaban New Site, in Kumasi on Sunday, May 14, 2023.

According to a police report, the fire started from a wooden structure behind the main building around 11am.

The wooden structure, which served as a warehouse and contained assorted clothes, got burnt into ashes.

Reports indicated that the personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) rushed to the scene to douse the fire.

The two suspects, who also feigned to be helping to douse the fire, took advantage of the situation to steal an amount of GH¢ 21,000.

The victim of the theft, one Justice Amoako, personally reported the case to the police.

According to Mr. Amoako, he was at church when he received a distressed call of fire burning his house around 11am.

The complainant said when he reached home he realised that the suspects had entered his living room to steal the cash.

A police statement, sighted by the paper, disclosed that both Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar are in police custody.

“That the burnt structure served as a warehouse for the complainant,” part the police statement pointed out.

“It was disclosed that the complainant was called from church and informed that his warehouse was on fire.

“That when he reached home suspects Emmanuel Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar had entered his living room and stole cash of GH¢21,000, which was in a bag and kept in his bed room.”

With the assistance of the patrol team, the report said, the suspects were arrested and detained for investigations, adding, “Emmanuel Akolobila and Yazeed Abubakar are in custody.”

Law enforcers have made swift progress in their probe into the armed robbery at Roti King on night of the 13th May 2023.

Two suspects are now in custody, as police intensify their investigation into the incident in which one of their off-duty colleagues was shot and injured. The officer has since been treated at hospital and discharged Two gun-toting robbers entered the eatery in St John’s City shortly after 10pm and demanded money. The off-duty police officer who was nearby witnessed the unfolding developments and reportedly challenged the robbers. He was shot below the right knee during an ensuing exchange of gunfire.

The robbers escaped with at least XCD$3,000.00 from the business establishment, in addition to tickets for the ‘Farmers Only’ event which was held on Sunday. Anyone with information which can assist in the police’s probe is being asked to contact the Criminal Investigations Department at 462-3913, or Crimestoppers.

 Three per­sons, accused of impersonation and robbery have been remanded by the Accra Circuit Court.

They allegedly posed as military, police and a police investigator and robbed a woman, one of the victims, of GH¢4,950.

Isaac Amejor, Michael Baffour, alias Mike, and Muntakilu Saddick, allegedly dressed as military man, policeman and a police (Criminal Investigation Department person­nel), respectively.

They have been charged with conspiracy, impersonation, rob­bery, preparation to commit crime, restriction on the use of military uniform and equipment and being on premises for unlawful purpose.

They pleaded not guilty to all the charges and would reappear before court on May 23, 2023.

The court ordered prosecution to file disclosures latest by May 17, 2023, and serve the accused.

The court heard that Amejor was dismissed from the Ghana Police Service, Baffour resigned from the Ghana Army in 2014, and Mutakilu, who was a trader at Kantamanto, in Accra, but aban­doned his trading.

The prosecution said Amejor and Baffour resided at Kasoa, in the Central Region, and Muntaki­lu resided at Asamankese in the Eastern Region.

The court heard that the three became friends and formed a robbery syndicate that targeted in­nocent citizens, who visited banks and other financial institutions to transact business.

The prosecution said the gang hired taxi to take them around, to monitor clients, who went to banks to withdraw money.

The court heard that Mutaki­lu posed as a detective dressed in casual wear, entered banking halls, and describe clients to his accomplices, who hired taxi to trail victims.

The prosecution said during their operations, Amejor, who unlawfully dressed in police attire, alighted from the taxi (car), confront clients and tell them they were under arrest.

Baffour, on the other hand, unlawfully dressed in military uniform, joined his colleagues and forced the victims into a hired taxi, making such victims believe that they were employees of the Ghana Police, and Ghana Army.

The gang, according to prose­cution, ordered the driver to move the taxi immediately as they direct­ed him (driver) on routes to use.

The court heard that in the pro­cess, the gang robbed victims of their monies and pushed them out of the vehicle, adding that accused used the internet to track bank customers. 

Two persons suspected to be robbers have been beaten to pulp by an angry mob at Ninja Junction, a suburb of Millenium City in the Gomoa East District of the central region of Ghana.

The victims who wielded knives and other offensive weapons attempted to burgle a fenced house but luck eluded them as they were rounded up by some residents of the area.

Residents of the area say armed robbers and thieves have been tormenting them for a long time now.

 Three men suspected to be thieves attempted to break into a house in the vicinity thinking its occupants had gone to church.

Nearby residents drew closer when an occupant of the house sounded an alarm.

Two out of the three suspects were rounded up and severely beaten by the angry residents.The chief of the area Nana Okoforobour Amoani wants police to intensify patrols in the area in order to bring down the robbery and burglary incidences in the area.

He is worried that the police did not show up at the scene even though they were promptly informed about the incident.

Attorney-at-law Vonda Pile is back in court, but as a defence counsel, after completing a three-year prison sentence for stealing a client’s funds.

She entered an appearance for a serious bodily harm accused in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court on Thursday.

However, questioned after the court appearance about whether she was back at her practice, she replied that she has never given any statements and that had not changed.

Her client, David Eric Dupre of Layne’s Road, Brittons Hill, St Michael, is charged with doing serious bodily harm to Keith Barrow with intent to maim, disfigure or disable him or do some serious bodily harm to him, on December 11, 2015.

Pile asked the court for disclosure in the matter. In reply, Magistrate Alison Burke said that according to the court files, Dupre had already been served with those documents.

However, the accused said he did not receive any and Pile again requested a copy.

The case was adjourned to May 11 and Dupre remains on $3 000 bail. Pile served a sentence at Dodds after she was convinced of theft of $191 416. 39 from Anstey King between April 29, 2009, and October 26, 2010.

She has consistently maintained her innocence. The veteran attorney challenged the conviction and sentence before the Court of Appeal and the Caribbean Court of Justice but was unsuccessful at both courts.

The Tarkwa circuit court, has sentenced a driver to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for conspiring with his wife to rob a fellow taxi driver of his vehicle valued at GH￠30,000.00.

The convict, Timothy Amponsah, 32, also a taxi driver, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and robbery.

Police Chief Inspector Joseph Lartey, prosecuting, told the court presided over by Mrs Hathie Ama Manu that the complainant, Sampson Arhin, 28, a taxi driver, lives at Ankobra in the PresteaHuni-Valley Municipality.

The court heard that Amponsah and the wife Sheilla Omano, who is currently on the run, were residents of Asebu Ankromah, in the Central Region with their four children.

Chief Inspector Lartey said the couple traveled to Prestea and planned to rob a taxi from any driver they would meet.

Prosecution explained further that Amponsah and the wife spotted the complainant driving a taxicab with registration number AS 9230-22, and signaled him (driver) to stop.

Chief Insp Lartey said the married couple hired the service of the complainant from Prestea to Dumasi, so that they could visit a friend.

The court heard that on arrival at their destination, Omano made a phone call to someone, and told Arhin that the person they (married couple) went to visit had left to Bogoso, so they should proceed to the place.

Chief InspLartey said while on the way, the convict who sat directly behind the driver, attacked him (driver) and smeared powered pepper on his face.

The court heard that the complainant lost control of the vehicle, and the engine went off.

Chief Insp Lartey said Amponsah then pushed him out of the vehicle, and drove the taxi to an unknown destination.

According to the prosecution, complainant reported the incident to the police at Bogoso and obtained medical form to attend hospital, where he was treated and discharged.

Chief Insp Lartey said the police upon investigation, arrested Arhin at Asebu Akromah.

The prosecution said when a search was conducted in Amponsah’s room, the complainant’s original number plate (of vehicle) was found.

The court ordered that the vehicle should be released to the complainant.

1. Police are hunting a gang of balaclava-clad robbers who have forced their way into five London homes, threatening residents with knives and spraying some with a “corrosive substance”.
   
   Four masked men are thought to have carried out the violent home invasions across just three nights this week, in west and north-west London.
   
   The string of attacks has seen three women and a man in his 70s taken to hospital, after being sprayed with a corrosive liquid.
   
   Scotland Yard says a team of detectives is working “around the clock” to track down the gang, but no arrests have yet been made.
   
   The first incident happened in Highfield Avenue, Brent Cross, around 11.15pm on Wednesday.
   
   Four men forced entry into a terraced house before threatening a woman in her 40s who lived there with a knife, and throwing an “unknown substance” towards her.
   
   It is not yet known whether any items were taken.
   
   Around 11.40pm the same night, police were alerted to another incident in Flamsted Avenue, Harrow, which saw four males force their way into a home and steal a quantity of jewellery. There were no reports of any injuries.
   
   Shortly before 11pm the next evening (Thursday), police were called to reports of an aggravated burglary at a house in Lady Margaret Road, Southall.
   
   Four men had broken into the property armed with a knife and a screwdriver, before spraying a corrosive liquid into the face of a man in his 70s, who was inside.
   
   They stole a safe containing cash and jewellery.
   
   The victim was taken to hospital with facial injuries which were later assessed to be not life-threatening or life-changing.
   
   The fourth incident happened in Harrowdene Road, Harrow, at around 8.45pm the following night (Friday).
   
   Four men forced entry into a property and threatened the occupant with a liquid. Jewellery and other items were stolen before the group fled. No one was injured.
   
   The final incident happened around 9.10pm the same night.
   
   A group of men forced entry to a property in Greenford Road, Harrow, and three women
   
   ones in her 60s and two in their 20s - were assaulted with a corrosive substance.

PartnershipTaskForce responded to repeated calls of a male breaking into properties.

1 male was 'caught red-handed' hiding in a shop in #Spitalfields with a big bag of stolen property.

Arrested for numerous offenses including several burglaries

Robbers struck at a food establishment in Bolans the evening of the 4th of May 2023, making off with at least XCD$1,800.00 in cash.

The gun-toting robbers reportedly entered the establishment and demanded money shortly after 7pm. They reportedly fired shots before fleeing on foot, but no one was injured.

Police have been searching the area for the robbers and are asking anyone with information to contact the Criminal Investigations Department at 462-3913.

The #schoolboy was caught when he walked into a café where police officers were plotting how to find and arrest him.

A 15-year-old boy who was part of a gang that brandished a #machete as they crashed into a professional #cyclist at a London park to steal his £15,000 bike has been jailed.

Alex Richardson, 32, was training in #Richmond Park, south west London, when a gang of four - led by the teenager- knocked him to the ground and stole his prized custom-made, one-of-a-kind bicycle on October 7 2021.

But horror struck when one of the attackers wielded a huge 15-inch knife in front of him and forced him to hand over the bike.

At Wimbledon Youth Court on Tuesday, the defendant, who is now 17 but cannot be named due to a court order, was jailed for six months, plus six months on licence once he is released.

My Mercedes C43 got stolen from my driveway this morning between 12:30 and 2 am. Please help me find it - @shaykhashiq

Detectives have launched a #CCTV appeal after a schoolboy was followed off a bus and robbed of his phone in northeast London.

The 16-year-old victim was leaving a bus outside #Blackhorse Road Tube Station in #Walthamstow, when the incident happened around 3.50 pm on January 8
Two males - thought to be in their late teens - stole his mobile phone before walking away.

Detectives from the Roads and Transport Policing Command are investigating.

They on Friday released CCTV images of the two young men, who they need to identify and speak with.