WOMAN ARRESTED FOR FRAUD

Story: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Axim
A self-styled business woman who has defrauded 12 unsuspecting traders to the sum of more than GHc295,000 in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region has been arrested in the act.
According to the police the suspect, Maame Adwoa Sabaah, managed to collect hundreds of bags of sugar, rice, flour from unsuspecting dealers under pretext of supplying it to her customers and paying them in a day or two.
The police said after gaining their confidence and collecting the stuff from their shops that was the last they had seen Sabaah.
Asked what she uses the consignment for, Sabaah told that police that she reduces the prices and offload it quickly and move on to another trader in a different location for supply.
Her luck run out at Kasoa in the Central Region, when one her victims she duped in Axim identified her on the verge of loading another consignment from the shop of an unsuspecting customer and raised alarm.
She was then arrested and handed over police and later passed her on to the Axim District Police Command where it was established that many people had lodged complain about the activities of the Adwoa Sabaah.
According to Axim District Police Commander, DSP Lovelace Tefutor, they had complains from June to December 2009 about the activities of the suspect.
The police he said started their intelligent works until the report came that she was apprehended at Kasoa in similar act act.
Mr Tefutor said some of the suspects told the police she took more than 85 bags of rice, 90 full bags of sugar and others claimed she took bulk supply of flour with the hope supplying and returning to them with the money.
The district commander said the victims said they waited but Adwoa Sabaah did not returned with the money and they were compelled to report to the police to help trace the woman.
He said currently, Adwoa Sabaah is remanded in to police custody pending further investigations.