Crime
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Portugal: Citizens rob clinics; claiming “ozone therapy” cures covid-19
Portuguese police detained five people on Thursday after raiding health clinics allegedly exploiting the coronavirus pandemic by claiming “ozone therapy” prevents or cures the highly contagious disea…
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Parliamentary candidate, four others handed ¢100k bail for breaking covid-19 rules
An independent Parliamentary aspirant for Assin South and four others who were allegedly holding a rally at Assin Aroso without regards to COVID-19 protocols were on Monday granted bail in the sum of…
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Court remands 3 illegal miners in prison
The Enchi District Magistrate court presided over by Mr Eric Baah Boateng has convicted a Ghanaian and two Guineans to a total of 54 months imprisonment in hard labour for illegally prospecting for g…
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Barcelona: Police arraign two Algerians in anti-terrorism raid
Two Algerian men were detained in an anti-terrorism raid in Spain’s second largest city Barcelona on Tuesday morning, police said. The two Algerians were part of a cell, under investigation since 201…
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Man dragged to court after having sex with co-tenant’s daughter
Seth Kwabena Asamoah, a painter who allegedly sexually abused his co-tenant‘s 14-year-old daughter, have been put before an Accra Circuit Court charged with defilement. Asamoah, 43, has however denie…
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Taskforce nab 29 people for failing to wear nose mask
The Sunyani Municipal Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Prevention Taskforce has arrested and placed in Police custody 29 people for failure to wear nose masks in public. The Taskforce made the arrest d…
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37-year-old in police custody for defilement 9-year-old
A 37-year-old mason is in the grips of the Benso police for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl. The suspect, Phillip Gyan, was said to have lured the victim into an uncompleted building and defi…
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Voters Registration: 9 in police custody after distrusting activity
The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested two persons who disrupted the registration exercise. Seven of their accomplices who tried freeing whilst police was sending them to the police station h…
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3 dead, others brutalized as unknown gunmen storm Kasoa Opeikuma’s chief house
Three persons have sustained gunshot and machete wounds while three vehicles have been vandalized after some unknown men numbering about 18 on motorbikes stormed the Kasoa Opeikuma chief’s palace. Ch…
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I’m not sure if I had sex with my daughter or not – Father insists
An alleged incestuous father has told an Accra Circuit Court that after drinking four sachets of ‘alomo’ bitters, an alcoholic beverage, he could not tell whether or not he had sex with his 12-year-o…