One person arrested in Mpohor gold shop robbery
Police have arrested one person in connection with the robbery of a gold shop that occurred on Saturday, August 16, 2025, in the Mpohor District of the Western Region.
Authorities are also pursuing eight additional suspects believed to have participated in the crime.
Reports indicate that a group of heavily armed assailants attacked the gold shops on Saturday night, resulting in injuries to one person.
The police were alerted around 7:30 p.m. about approximately nine masked men armed with pump-action guns who invaded two gold-buying shops.
“They robbed them of unspecified amounts of money and quantity of gold, shot one Eric Kwofie, aged 43, and bolted into a nearby bush”.
The police have expressed their commitment to apprehending all those involved in this incident.
In a separate incident last Friday, the Anti-Armed Robbery Response Unit (AARU) successfully thwarted an attempted robbery at the MRB Rural Bank in Winneba, Central Region.
Around 1 a.m., the bank’s alarm was activated, alerting the on-duty patrol team to suspicious activity.
“On reaching the location, they were met with sporadic gunshots from the robbers.
After a brief exchange of fire, the robbery gang bolted from the scene, leaving behind one pump action gun and other tools used in the robbery,” the police said.
The AARU team collaborated with investigators, processing the crime scene and recovering one pump-action gun and an empty cartridge.
Initial investigations suggest that around five armed individuals were involved in the failed bank heist.
“They attempted to break into the bank vault, but for the timely intervention of the police patrol team, who foiled the plans of the robbery gang,” the police said in a statement.
“The modus operandi of this robbery gang is similar to that of the group involved in the earlier rural bank robberies, suggesting that the same gang may be responsible for all the robberies,” they said and that “intelligence shows that they may be hiding in Kumasi”.
The police further stated that a team of surveillance officers from the AARU was still in Kumasi, attempting to locate their place(s) of residence.