Galamsey operator jailed ten years for stealing

Samuel Addae, a 21 year-old  illegal miner (Galamsey operator), has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court for stealing four mobile phones valued at GH¢315.

He was convicted on his own plea.

Prosecuting Police Detective Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah told the Court presided over by Mr Samuel Obeng Diawuo that the complainant Patience Ackah, is a trader at Dompim near Tarkwa, while the convict lives at Topp, a suburb of Nsuaem.

He said on August 31, the convict unlawfully used a cutter and a screw driver and broke into the complainant’s boutique shop at Dompim and stole the mobile phones.

Detective Amponsah said while the theft was ongoing the police had a tip off and on arrival they found Addae hiding in the boutique and arrested him.

He said after investigations the convict was charged with the offence.

Source: GNA