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Regional News from Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-02-13
The case was postponed until 19 February.
The West Regional Police Command prosecuted nine people from Takoradi for simulating kidnappings and extortions.
The nine, six of whom are high school students, took advantage of the confusion surrounding the abduction kidnapping to earn money and, in some cases, settle their personal accounts.
The six students aged 16 to 19 from four different Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis schools helped and simulated kidnappings and claimed ransom.
The main suspect, De-Vreeze Quaino, of GSTS, pleaded guilty to both charges of misleading a public official and conspiracy to commit a crime.
The case was adjourned to February 19, after two of the six suspects pleaded not guilty and the other four pleaded guilty.
Presiding Judge Michael Ampadu allowed four of the six suspects to accompany their parents on the grounds that they were minors.
Judge Michael Ampadu, dissatisfied with the behavior of the students, advised them.
The judge said it would give a deterrent sentence to the resumption of the case on February 19.
However, Judge Ampadu placed the students in pretrial detention, but in the absence of juvenile prisons in the metropolis of Sekondi-Takoradi, four out of six had to be accompanied by their parents and two others over 17 were in pre-trial detention.
The students are Quainu De-Vreezse, a 17-year-old student from Ghana's Higher Technical School. [GSTS]Anthony Osei Prempeh, Daniel Kwesi Essel, 18 years old and GSTS student, 18 years old from Fijai High School, Elijah Sam, 16, Takoradi Technical Institute [TTI], Calib Windbridge Aryetey Tagoe, 16, of TTI and Evelyn Agyapong, 19, from Takoradi High School.
DSP Olivia Adiku, head of the West Regional Police, who gave details of the case to Citi News, said that the student's involvement in the false kidnapping case was very worrying.
Three of the students pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a crime while the other two pleaded not guilty.
The arrests
De-Vreeze Quaynoo, allegedly conspired with other students to simulate the complaint for kidnapping.
Police said they were pursuing the other four accomplices.
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According to information provided by the Metropolitan Police Criminal Affairs Officer, Alhaji Musah Hussein Awinaba, Daniel and De-Vreeze have purchased and registered a new SIM card to be used to make appeals for the extortion attempt. 39; money.
The SIM card would have been used to call De-Vreeze's parents and relatives who lived in Sefwi Wiawso that he had been kidnapped and that the badailants were demanding a ransom of 9,000 GH ¢.
Supper. Hussein 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.
When the team members arrived at the scene, they found the De-Vreeze school uniform in the house and asked how the uniform had arrived.
The owner told the police that De-vreeze and the other alleged accomplices, namely Osei-Prempeh, Daniel and Evelyn, had visited his son, Elijah Sam, the previous night and had stayed there 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.
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