The suspects
Five suspects who allegedly hatched a plan to rob a mining site at Dompim in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region, have been arrested.
They were apprehended by the Western Central Regional Police Command.
Preliminary investigations established that the five armed men attacked the mining site, robbing workers of gold concentrate amidst gunfire.
One of the suspects, Akwasi Abban, was arrested at the scene by workers at the site while the others escaped.
Suspect Akwasi Abban admitted to the robbery and mentioned the site foreman, Ebenezer Soore, as the person who provided information to the robbery syndicate.
Suspect Soore was subsequently arrested.
Three of the accomplices, Elijah Arthur alias Possible, Elisha Arthur alias Skonzy, and David Agyarko alias Big Man, were later arrested on June 2, 2025.
A statement issued by the police indicated that all the suspects have since been put before court and remanded into prison custody.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi