Crime

1,284  Three men with alleged ties to Ghana have been arrested in New York City with over 100 illegal guns. Ahmed “Taju” Mutalib, Abdul Haruna, and Murtala Haruna, all cousins, have been charged with 575 counts of criminal sale of a firearm, criminal possession of a weapon, conspiracy, and money laundering. Prosecutors allege that Mutalib, […]

1,204  Four Chinese nationals have been robbed at gunpoint, with an unspecified amount stolen from after an armed policeman who was supposed to provide them escort abandoned them to buy a tyre. According to a police situational report the police Constable identified as Mawuli Rashid with Regional SWAT unit at Sekondi in the Western Region, […]

1,387  A gang of armed robbers have attacked Gaso filling station in Adankrono, near Kade, within the Kwaebibirem Municipality of the Eastern Region on the evening of Tuesday, November 7, 2023. At approximately 6:30 PM, the armed robbers who were four in number invaded the premises and unleashed a hail of sporadic gunshots which injured […]

1,242    The Chief Executive Officer of the Airwired Nigeria Limited, Oladapo Ogundipe, has narrated how his daughter, Alanis, committed suicide in the United Kingdom on May 29 after being allegedly blackmailed by her boyfriend, Ryan Legget.   Mr Ogundipe narrated the incidents that led to the death of her daughter in an interview with […]

1,633    A young man in his late 30s from the Sherigu community in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region was shot dead by unknown assailants. What might have triggered the barbaric act is yet to be established, but eyewitnesses have it that the young man by the name, Atambila Rockson was returning […]

1,281    Two individuals have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, accused of defrauding an American of $1,205,000 by falsely promising to supply the victim with seven 20-footer containers of money. Dzam Abotsi, a car dealer, and Nana Kwame Yanka, a businessman, face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and defrauding under false pretenses. Abotsi […]

1,295  A joint team of soldiers and national security officers have arrested a number of suspects after The Ghana Report broke the news about an attack on counter-terrorism intelligence officers leading to a near bloodbath at Garu in the Upper East Region. The Ministry of National Security corroborated reports by The Ghana Report about a […]

1,269  The Deputy Upper East Regional Communication Director for the NPP, Andrew Atariwini, has expressed strong reservations over the attack on residents in Garu by the military. It is unclear the reason for the attack by the military. In a post made on his official Facebook page, Mr. Atariwini called on the Ministry of Defense […]

1,473    Some officers of the Ghana Armed Forces have subjected scores of residents of Garu and its environs to brutalisation after they invaded this area this morning. Many residents have been left injured and traumatized after the officers subjected them to merciless beating and other forms of abuse. According to some of the victims […]

1,380  One person was shot dead and eight others injured on Friday, October 27, 2023, in an apparent targeted murder at Adome, a suburb of Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region. Armed men belonging to one faction of a chieftaincy divide were on a procession through the streets of the community with a palanquin amidst […]