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Crime & Punishment of Saturday, February 9, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-02-09
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While kidnapping reports are gaining popularity in the country, especially in Sekondi-Takoradi, unscrupulous individuals have decided to pretend to pretend that they were earning money with money. unsuspecting public members.
False allegations of abductions have again surfaced in the twin city, the latest one having led to the arrest of two people.
One of them, a student, allegedly conspired with friends to claim a ransom of 9,000 GH ¢ from her parents, while the other simulated a case of kidnapping against her. ex-husband.
The incidents sent the Takoradi police hunting wild geese for suspected kidnappers.
In either case, De-Vreeze Quaynoo, a senior year student at Ghana's High School Technical and Secondary (GSTS), allegedly conspired with other students to simulate the kidnapping complaint.
The police said they were pursuing the other accomplices whose names were Anthony Osei-Prempeh, Elijah Sam, Daniel and Evelyn.
In the other case, a mother of two, Lucy Awortwi, who is reportedly around 20 years old, was arrested after mocking a case of kidnapping her ex-husband.
She was, however, released on police investigation bail.
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According to the Metropolitan Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Alhaji Musah Hussein Awinaba, Daniel and De-Vreeze purchased and registered a new SIM card to be used to launch appeals for extortion attempts.
He added that Daniel had received the SIM card to call the parents of De-Vreeze and those who lived in Sefwi Wiawso, that he had been kidnapped and that the badailants were demanding a ransom of 9,000 GH ¢.
Daily Graphic Briefing, he said at 9:20 pm Last Wednesday, Mr. Bernard Adu Ampako, head of household at GSTS, informed the police that Mr. Quaynoo had left the premises of the school around 15 hours. and subsequently reported to have been abducted by an unknown interlocutor.
The hostess explained that the Deputy Prefect of Schools (ASP), who was using De-vreeze's phone, had received a strange call that De-vreeze had been kidnapped and for which a ransom of 9,000 GH ¢ was requested.
He added that the investigators were immediately sent to gather information, stating that the victim was with some of his friends in a house located around Takoradi High School (TADISCO).
Alhaji Awinaba said that when the team arrived at the scene, she found De-vreeze's uniform in the house and asked how this uniform had reached its destination.
The landlord, he said, told the police that De-vreeze and the other alleged accomplices, namely Osei-Prempeh, Daniel and Evelyn, had visited his son, Elijah Sam, the night before and were stayed until 22 hours. when she asked them to go home.
The owner said that although they left, they went back to his son the next morning with an explanation stating that they were there to study.
The metropolitan crime officer said that Osei-Prempeh, one of the students involved in planning the false kidnapping story, had been confronted and the panic had revealed the plot and offered to show them where found De-Vreeze.
"They drove the investigator to Anaji Chief's palace where he found De-Vreeze wearing only his underpants," he said.
Alhaji Awinaba said De-Vreeze claimed to be in pain because he was complaining of chest pains. He was sent to Takoradi Hospital, where he was treated and released.
The Crime Officer stated during his interrogation that he had capitalized on the current situation and played the kidnapping gimmick with his friends in order to extort money from his parents to buy ink and print. Fake cash.
The Metropolitan Crime Officer stated that new investigations revealed that his accomplices were all students of GSTS, Fijai SHS and Takoradi SHS.
In the other case, Mr. Awiniba stated that Lucy had taken advantage of her ex-husband's permission to send their two children to visit their grandmother in Beposo to prepare a kidnapping case so that the man be stopped to teach him a lesson.
According to Alhaji Awinaba, Lucy called the police emergency phone line to complain about being kidnapped by her two children.
The police deployed personnel to the place indicated by Lucy, but during the interrogation, she realized that she had misled the police with a premeditated ploy to put her ex-husband in trouble.
Alhaji Awinaba reiterated the warning to the public to refrain from creating unnecessary fear and panic in society following allegations of kidnapping and similar crimes.
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