A/R: Suspect In 2016 Police Officer Killing Arrested
The police in the Ashanti Region have arrested a 32-year-old man over his alleged connection in the killing of a police officer nine years ago.
According to a police statement, Michael Owusu Ansah, known as Baby Last, during a robbery at the Open Space Hotel in Denchemuoso, shot and killed the said officer.
He had since been on the police wanted list.
“The suspect had been on the police wanted list since 2016 in connection with a robbery and the murder of Police Officer G/Cpl Frank Essel of SWAT/Ashanti, which occurred at the Open Space Hotel in Denchemuoso,” a statement by the police said.
He was arrested by the Police Intelligence Directorate (PID) in the Ashanti Region on April 22 in a renewed clampdown on resurgent robbery incidents in the Denchemuoso District.
“During interrogation, the suspect confessed to engaging in multiple street and residential robberies in Denchemuoso, Atwima-Techiman, Asuoyeboah, and surrounding areas. He also disclosed that his gang operated with knives, pistols, and pump-action guns.”
Michael led the police to the arrest of members of his gang identified as Emmanuel Owusu, alias Cassidy, Maxwell Gyimah, alias Nana Kwame, Sudais Oxford Ntiamoah, alias The Man Sudais and Rhano Okyere, alias Demon, from their hideouts within Atwima-Techiman and Denchemuoso.
One other suspect remains at large, and efforts are underway to apprehend him and recover the weapons used in the robberies, the police noted.
Meanwhile, the five arrested suspects were arraigned before the Atasomanso Circuit Court on May 13, 2025, and were remanded into police custody.
They are scheduled to reappear on June 4, 2025.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
