A Tarkwa Circuit court has fined a 25-year-old welder GH¢480.00 for allegedly stealing a car battery.
In default, the convict, Abu Ibrahim, would serve three months imprisonment in hard labour.
He pleaded guilty to unlawful entry and stealing.
Prosecuting, Detective Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah, told the court that the complainant, Sergeant Ramatu Yahaya, is stationed at the office of the Divisional Motor Transport and Traffic Department of the Ghana Police Service in Tarkwa.
He said the convict is a resident of Fanti Mines Number Three, near Aboso, in the Prestea Huni/Valley District.
He said on January 11, around 2130 hours, Ibrahim broke into a Nissan Sentra Saloon car which belonged to Sergeant Yahaya and stole the battery.
The prosecution said the convict sold the stolen car battery worth GH¢500.00 for only GH¢20.00.to a scrap dealer at Bogoso Junction, a suburb of Tarkwa.
However, Edward Rockson, a witness in the case, and three of his friends, saw Ibrahim with the car battery in the neighbourhood and questioned him about the owner of the item.
The convict confessed stealing the item and that he had already sold it to a scrap dealer in the area.
They arrested Ibrahim and handed him over to the police.
The prosecutor said the convict led the police to the scrap dealer who bought the item for interrogation.
