{"id":383484,"date":"2017-12-15T06:57:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=383484"},"modified":"2017-12-15T07:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:16:01","slug":"wa-police-officer-6-others-arrested-for-drug-peddling-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/wa-police-officer-6-others-arrested-for-drug-peddling-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Wa Police officer, 6 others arrested for drug peddling, extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven persons, including a police officer, have been arrested by police in Wa in the Upper West Region, for alleged extortion and narcotics peddling.<\/p>\n<p>The men were apprehended after one of the suspects led a team of policemen to their hideout.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;yt0EklS8OJ7ooBnGG5FWQT70pG9HS13I&#8221;]Addressing the media on Thursday, the Upper West Regional Police Commander, DCOP Boapeah Okyere, said the police found the suspected narcotic substances after a search of the suspect\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>One Hakeem Kasim, 28, was arrested in a residence in a suburb of Wa, after he was caught wrapping some substances suspected to\u00a0be narcotics drugs.<\/p>\n<p>People found in the house with Hakeem were also arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Hakeem subsequently led police to the room of Constable Nana Amako Donkor who was also arrested,\u00a0DCOP Boapeah Okyere stated.<\/p>\n<p>DCOP Boapeah Okyere also cautioned the public to beware of persons who come in cunning ways to extort from them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police would like to use this opportunity to caution the public to be wary and careful of such people parading as informants and defrauding high ranking personnel with sugar-coated information. Such people use the success stories of known arrests made elsewhere as their brainchild,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This arrest follows the Wednesday apprehension of another police officer, Corporal Raymond Amegashie, who is believed to be the leader of a robbery gang that attacked and robbed a supermarket in Nungua in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_383491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383491\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-383491\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Corporal-Raymond-Amegashie-who-is-believed-to-be-the-leader-of-a-robbery-gang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Corporal-Raymond-Amegashie-who-is-believed-to-be-the-leader-of-a-robbery-gang.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Corporal-Raymond-Amegashie-who-is-believed-to-be-the-leader-of-a-robbery-gang-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-383491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corporal Raymond Amegashie is believed to be the leader of a robbery gang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Corporal Amegashie, who is with the Tema Police Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT), was apprehended alongside three other suspects after allegedly attacking and stealing GHc 54,000 from the Asante supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>In other notable instances of police involvement in crime, an interdicted Police Constable, Samuel Asamoah of the Kasoa Police Station, was arrested for his alleged involvement in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/07\/police-constable-businessman-arrested-for-robbery\/\">a GH\u00a27, 800<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0robbery\u00a0at Swedru in September.<\/p>\n<p>Also in September, a Corporal, Effah Kyere Williams Boadu, an officer with the Upper East Regional Arms and Ammunitions Unit of the Ghana Police Service,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/20\/police-officer-interdicted-for-illegal-sale-of-guns\/\"><strong>was arrested<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for illegally selling firearms to unauthorized persons.<\/p>\n<p>In November, a Police officer and a supervisor at the Tema Motorway toll booth, were arrested in connection with a robbery incident were robbers on motorbikes broke into the toll booth and made away with about GHC 45,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven persons, including a police officer, have been arrested by police in Wa in the Upper West Region, for alleged extortion and narcotics peddling. 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