{"id":399166,"date":"2018-02-07T06:46:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399166"},"modified":"2018-02-07T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T13:38:53","slug":"23-yr-old-man-arrested-with-young-boys-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399166","title":{"rendered":"23-yr old man arrested with young boy’s head"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Agona Nkwanta District Police Command on Tuesday night arrested 23-year-old\u00a0Alex Tetteh for possessing a human head, believed to be that of a young boy.<\/p>\n

The suspect was arrested by the people of Sankro, a village near Dixcove when he was searching for a potential buyer of the human part.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”PvyaU3IQRwNAvm3WOWswpxSvjTacPMcQ”]The Western Regional Police PRO, ASP Olivia Adiku, told Takoradi-based Skyypower FM that the suspect had attempted to sell the human head to a spiritualist around 5:15 pm on Tuesday, February 6.<\/p>\n

According to her, the spiritualist became suspicious and raised an alarm, and with the help of other residents ,the suspect was arrested and handed over to the police.<\/p>\n

When interrogated by the police, the suspect, Alex Tetteh, claimed to have decapitated a boy, believed to be twelve [12] years at Bogoso with two accomplices.<\/p>\n

The suspect has since been transferred to the Regional Police Command at Sekondi pending further investigations, while the human head concealed in a black polythene bag has been conveyed to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital morgue.<\/p>\n

Boy identified<\/strong><\/p>\n

One Peter Tetteh, from Bogoso in the Prestea Huni Valley District of the Western Region, has identified the head as his 12-year-old son, Ebenezer Tetteh, a student of Grace International School at Bogoso.<\/p>\n

Reports say a number of residents in Bogoso flooded the Bogoso Police station in fear and shock.<\/p>\n

Sources from the school indicate that the deceased was seen in the school in the morning but after some students were sacked for the non-payment of school fees, he may have left.<\/p>\n

However, according to the father of the beheaded boy, his son has paid his fees in full.<\/p>\n

Crime and rituals<\/strong><\/p>\n

This arrest follows the police uncovering<\/a><\/strong><\/span> a shrine at Akatapo, a village near Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region, where it is suspected that some criminals fortify themselves before undertaking in illegal operations.<\/p>\n

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Four persons were arrested at the shrine during the swoop and the police also retrieved a human head in a black polythene bag which had been placed on one of the idols at the shrine.<\/p>\n

The human head, which was in an advanced stage of decomposition, was found with a telephone number written on a piece of paper and tied around it.<\/p>\n

The fetish priest and owner of the shrine is currently on the run and is alleged to have been engaged in several rituals, especially money doubling rituals, for his clients.<\/p>\n

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By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Agona Nkwanta District Police Command on Tuesday night arrested 23-year-old\u00a0Alex Tetteh for possessing a human head, believed to be that of a young boy. The suspect was arrested by the people of Sankro, a village near Dixcove when he was searching for a potential buyer of the human part. [contextly_sidebar id=”PvyaU3IQRwNAvm3WOWswpxSvjTacPMcQ”]The Western Regional Police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":399177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[381,3,519,10434],"class_list":["post-399166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-ghana-news","tag-police","tag-ritual-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}