By Erica Apeatua Addo, GNA
Tarkwa (W/R), Oct 8, GNA – A Tarkwa Circuit
Court has fined Michael Acheampong, unemployed, GH¢6,000.00 for stealing a
Nissan Pick-up engine.
Acheampong would serve 36 months in prison
with hard labour if he fails to pay the fine.
Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Faustina
Celestina Anaman, told the Court, presided over by Mr Emmanuel Bart-Plange
Brew, that the complainant is a mechanic and resident at Ahwetieso and owns an
automobile maintenance shop at Wassa Agona on the Tarkwa-Takoradi Highway.
She said in August this year, a client of
the complainant brought his Nissan Pick-up vehicle for routine maintenance.
The complainant begun work on the engine but
he could not complete and therefore deferred to continue the next day, leaving
the engine in the workshop, prosecution indicated.
Inspector Anaman said when the complainant
returned to the garage the following morning the engine had been stolen and all
efforts made by him to find the engine did not materialized.
According to him, on August 10, 2019, the
complainant sent one of his apprentice to mend a car tyre at a vulganizing
shop.
The complainant later received a call from
his mentee that the said stolen engine from the workshop was being canibalised
by a scrap dealer at Agona Wassa, Inspector Anaman said.
The complainant then proceeded to the
trading center and identified the engine block as being the Nissan Pick-up
engine stolen from his garage.
The scrap dealer later nabbed Acheampong and
informed the complainant and they handed him over to the police with the
exhibit.
He was re-arrested and detained for further
interrogation.
GNA
