Court jails suspected armed robber

January 12, 2011 Nsawam (E/R), Jan. 12, GNA - The Nsawam Magistrate Court presided over by Mrs Marianda Bernnaman Williams on Tuesday jailed 22-year-old Owusu Agyemang for two years imprisonment with hard labour for possessing firearms without authority.

Owusu Agyemang who claimed he hailed from Aburi in the Eastern Region, pleaded guilty.

Prosecuting, Police Inspector Alex Cosmos, told the court that Owusu Agyemang was arrested by officials of the Nsawam branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) who saw him near River Densu in the area on January 7, 2011, with multiple scratches on his body and handed him over to the Nsawam police.

Inspector Cosmos said the Nsawam police upon interrogation found a locally manufactured pistol with two live ammunitions and a driving license belonging to one Adade Fowaah from Kumasi.

He said Agyemang and two other accomplices on December 28, 2010 attacked Mr Kwadwo Antwi and his wife Fowaah at Kumasi Asuoyeboa.

The prosecution added that Agyemang confirmed that the group had gone to Kumasi and taken away possessions belonging to Mr Antwi and Fowaah.

In another development, at the same court, Joyce Lomotey, a 28-year-old woman, has been remanded into prison custody at Nsawam for possessing some dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.

Prosecuting, Inspector Cosmos told the court that on January 26, 2010 Lomotey who hails from Ashiaman in the Greater Accra Region came to Nsawam Prisons to visit her husband Francis Wohami, a convict serving 18 years imprisonment for armed robbery.

Inspector Cosmos said the prison officers suspected the shoes of Lomotey which were bigger than her normal foot-size and a thorough search on her revealed some dry leaves concealed in the shoes.

The Nsawam Police has taken the leaves to the Police Forensic Laboratory in Accra for further analysis.

Lomotey would reappear in court on January 26, 2011.

GNA