Takoradi Police arrests six SHS students for faking kidnap

The Takoradi Police has arrested six SHS students for faking kidnap and extorting money from their victims.

The Western Regional Police Command prosecuted nine persons from Takoradi in the person of Quainu De-Vreeze a 17 year student of the Ghana Senior High Technical School [GSTS], Anthony Osei Prempeh, 18 year student of GSTS, Daniel Kwesi Essel, 17, from Fijai Senior High School, Elijah Sam, 16, from the Takoradi Technical Institute [TTI], Calib Windbridge Aryetey Tagoe, 16, from TTI and the Evelyn Agyapong, 19, from the Takoradi Senior High School for faking kidnappings and extortions.

Below is a full account of the report as shared by Citi News:

The Western Regional Police PRO, DSP Olivia Adiku who gave Citi News details of the case said the involvements of the student in the fake kidnapping case is very worrying.

Three of the students pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to commit the crime while the remaining two pleaded not-guilty.

Arrests

De-Vreeze Quainu allegedly conspired with some other students to fake the kidnapping claim.

Police said they were pursuing the other four accomplices.

Facts

Reports from the Metropolitan Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Alhaji Musah Hussein Awinaba, stated that Daniel and De-Vreeze bought and registered a new SIM card to be used in making calls for the money-extorting effort.

The SIM card was allegedly used to call De-Vreeze’s parents and relatives who lived at Sefwi Wiawso, that De-Vreeze had been kidnapped and the assailants were demanding a ransom of GH¢9000.

Sup. Hussein said at 9:20 p.m. last Wednesday, the Senior Housemaster of GSTS, Mr Bernard Adu Ampako, informed the police that Quaynoo had left the school premises about 3 p.m. and had subsequently been reported kidnapped by an unknown caller.

When the team arrived at the scene, they found De-Vreeze’s school uniform in the house and asked how the uniform got there.

The landlady told the police that De-vreeze and the other alleged accomplices, namely Osei-Prempeh, Daniel and Evelyn, visited her son, Elijah Sam, the previous night and stayed until 10 p.m. when she asked them to go back home.

The landlady said although they left, they returned to her son the following morning with an explanation that they were there to study.