The Magistrate Court in Hohoe in the Volta Region, has remanded two persons into police custody for alleged stealing.
The accused persons, David Amewu, 27, and Prince Gbedenyo, 29, a driver and a porter respectively, reside at Ahado, a suburb of Hohoe.
According to the prosecutor, Sgt. Dimah Sulemana Karim, last week, the two accused persons met the victim, a student of the Hohoe Campus of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS).
The student, whose name was given as Jonathan Adzido, was en-route to a church service at about 6:30 pm when he met the accused persons, and requested that they helped him locate a residence.
The accused persons, who claimed to know the location initiated a conversation with him.
Prince Gbedenyo told the victim that he was a gold dealer, and had a sample of gold on him. but needed mercury to test for its genuineness before giving it out, but the student said he did not have the chemical.
The accused persons, then told him that the mobile phone contains the mercury so he should give it to him and buy him (the accused) a camphor.
When the victim left to buy the camphor, the accused persons fled with the phone. The victim after noticing he had been duped, lodged an official complaint at the Hohoe Police Station.
The accused persons were later apprehended. They admitted the crime in their caution statement and produced the phone they made away with.
The police subsequently put them before the Magistrate Court on Wednesday.
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges, and were remanded in police custody to reappear on the 22nd November, 2017.
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By: Polymath Agbanyo & Nastin Ibn Saliu/citifmonline.com/Ghana