Court remands mechanic for stealing

Yaw Obiri, a 25-year-old mechanic, who led his captors to retrieve stolen vehicle accessories worth GHC2,930 has been remanded by the Dormaa Circuit Court to re-appear on November 1.

Obiri, who works at Low Cost, a suburb of Dormaa-Ahenkro, was charged with three counts of causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry and stealing.

His plea was not taken.

Police Chief Inspector Bismarck Boye-Lartey told the court, presided over by Mr Alexander Osei Tutu, that the complainant, Mr Frank Odame alias “Kwasi Electrician”, locked his shop after close of work on October 15, but the accused broke into the shop at dawn and stole five car batteries valued at GHC1,450, seven car alternators worth GHC1,140, two car starters valued at GHC140 and a TICO engine head worth GHC200.

He said the accused packed all the stolen items into a fertilizer sack and hid it in a nearby bush.

The prosecution said the accused approached one Kwadwo Kyeremeh, a driver at the Dormaa-Ahenkro Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) main branch ostensibly to arrange for a vehicle to convey the items to Berekum but luck eluded him when Mr Kyeremeh and two others became suspicious and questioned the source of the items.

Chief Inspector Boye-Lartey said the accused led the drivers to the bush where he had concealed the items and was arrested. He was charged after investigations.