{"id":208459,"date":"2014-08-11T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/amoateng-likely-to-gain-his-freedom-today\/"},"modified":"2014-08-11T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:06:00","slug":"amoateng-likely-to-gain-his-freedom-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/08\/11\/amoateng-likely-to-gain-his-freedom-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Amoateng likely to gain his freedom today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/a53b240x_mg_g30nf65edx_478193804155_4164682565256.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=1&amp;menu_id=1&amp;id=NTYyOTQ2';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\n<p>Ex-convict Eric Amoateng\u00a0is likely to be released from police custody later Monday\u00a0reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Joy News&#8217; Kwakye Afreh Nuamah, who is currently monitoring activities at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Accra, said Mr. Amoateng has been going through some documentation processes for his release.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday, his son, Akwasi Amoateng was said to have visited the Nima Divisional Police Command to meet a police detective, who later accompanied him (son) to inspect his father&#8217;s property, used as a surety.<\/p>\n<p>Afreh Nuamah described Mr. Amoateng&#8217;s appearance\u00a0on arrival at the CID headquarters, saying, he wore a green lacoste with a pair of blue jeans to match and escorted by about five police personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Amoateng has been in police custody days after he was granted bail by an Accra circuit court for alleged forgery.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amoateng was granted a Gh\u00c8\u00bc200,000 bail with three sureties, one of which would have to be\u00a0justified\u00a0by an Accra Circuit Court last Friday after he was charged with possessing forged passport\u00a0belonging to a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amoateng arrived in the country on Thursday, after serving a 10-year jail term in the US for illegal drug trafficking but was arrested by the Ghana Police at the Kotoka Airport for allegedly possessing a forged passport.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;clear:both;\">\n<div style=\"padding:5px;background-color: #eee;\"><b>Comments:<\/b><br \/>This article has <b>0<\/b> comment,  leave your comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t    \t<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Ex-convict Eric Amoateng\u00a0is likely to be released from police custody later Monday\u00a0reports say.Joy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}