Kade, June 18, GNA - Kwaku Owuraku, unemployed, who stole a taxi driver's mobile phone was on Thursday remanded in police custody by the Kade District Magistrate Court.
He pleaded not guilty and will re-appear on June 25.
Police Inspector D.T. Cobbina, prosecuting, said on May 4, Yaw Boateng, the driver, parked his taxi cab at Kade and while awaiting for passengers, lay on the back seat to relax.
He said Owuraku who knows the driver joined him in the car and sat on the front seat apparently also to relax.
The prosecutor said soon the driver fell asleep and on waking up realized that his mobile phone was not in the vehicle while Owuraku had also vanished.
He suspected Owuraku as having stolen the Siemens mobile phone valued at GHC 70 and made a fruitless search for him.
The prosecutor said the driver later arrested Owuraku and when questioned about the missing phone he initially denied knowledge of.
When he was threatened that he would be handed over to the police if he did not confess he admitted stealing the mobile phone and produced it but without its sim card (chip).
He was handed over to the police.
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