{"id":1201410,"date":"2022-09-09T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/09\/ellembelle-missing-excavators-3-more-found-9-suspects-apprehended\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:45:21","slug":"ellembelle-missing-excavators-3-more-found-9-suspects-apprehended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/09\/ellembelle-missing-excavators-3-more-found-9-suspects-apprehended\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellembelle missing excavators: 3 more found, 9 suspects apprehended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/5e66fe3d85484622a8c1e9859cc52671\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At least nine additional individuals have been apprehended in another anti-Galamsey operation launched by the police in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of Friday, September 9, 2022, the police also recovered three excavators and three pump-action pistols.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the accused included three Chinese nationals and six Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police detained nine more people and recovered three excavators and three pump action pistols in another anti-galamsey operation in the Western Region in the early hours of September 9th, 2022,&#8221; the police said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest came after authorities recovered one of the missing excavators.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kwasi Bonzo, the DCE for Ellembelle, and three others were arrested for alleged obstruction about the missing excavators.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bonzo, who was granted police investigation bail, was charged with five charges of assault, conspiracy to assault, and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>In a related event, five Chinese nationals were arrested on Thursday, September 8, 2022, in connection with the missing excavators in Ellembelle, Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals were apprehended &#8220;during a special police operation performed during the night of September 7th and the dawn of September 8th, 2022,&#8221; according to a brief police statement posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: @NanaKwame (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nChinese<br \/>\nEllembelle<br \/>\nGhanaians<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine additional individuals have been apprehended in another anti-Galamsey operation launched by the police in the Western Region. In the early hours of Friday, September 9, 2022, the police also recovered three excavators and three pump-action pistols. According to sources, the accused included three Chinese nationals and six Ghanaians. &#8220;The police detained nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19413,17442,22739,1529,12000],"class_list":["post-1201410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-apprehended","tag-ellembelle","tag-excavators","tag-missing","tag-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}