MAN, 65 JAILED 5YRS

Man, 65 jailed 5yrs

Story: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Takoradi
A 65-year-old man, Isaac Gyamfi, has been jailed five years for swindling and giving false information to the police in the Sekondi/Takoradi and other parts of the Western and Central regions.
Takoradi Circuit B presided over by Mr Charles Nimako Bamfo, convicted the suspect who pleaded guilty on his own plea and was sentenced to five years imprisonment in hard labor.
On his mode of operation, the convict informs the police officers in Apam in the Central Region and Beposo, Kwesimintsim, and Agona Nkwanta in the Western Region that he has been robbed of huge sums of money and vehicles.
Then after giving his statement to the police, he then asked the police for assistance him to travel to his base and return to station the next day to assist in investigations.
After receiving the assistance from the police, that would the last of the convict at the station.
Briefing the court, the prosecutor, Sgt Seth Ahelegbe, said after the convict managed to secure some money from the unsuspecting police officers, he then moves to another police station to lodge a similar complain.
Gyamfi was arrested when the convict was submitting his statement at Kwesimintsim Police Station and the Station Officer for Agona, one of the stations he swindled walked into the CID Unit of the police and was surprised to run into Gyamfi.
The prosecutor said, convict called at the Kwesimintsim Police Station and reported that, he traveled to Half Assini to transact business. And on his way back to Takoradi, upon reaching Apowa, he asked the driver of his vehicle, Opel Astra with the registration number ER 272-09 to stop for him to respond to call of nature.
Gyamfi told the police that on his return, the driver had sped-off with the car and cash amounting to GHc8,350 in a briefcase.
The prosecutor said prior to that, Gyamfi had reported to Agona Police that his driver had bolted with his vehicle, Opel Vectra with the registration number ER 6578 Z and cash also amounting to GHc7,800.
Sgt Ahelegbe said Gyamfi attracted the sympathy of the police officers on duty after he told them he had no pesewa on him and succeeded in collecting GHc70 from the contribution of officers on duty to enable him travel to his home town to return to help in investigations.
The prosecutor said, Agona Police did everything to contact the convict to help in the investigation but proved futile until he was identified in an attempt to visit his motives on the unsuspecting visitors at Kwesimintsim.
According to the prosecution before Gyemfi could be processed for court, the signals from other offices indicated that he had visited such crime on other stations in the Central and Western Regions.