Sentences with word «robbers»

The taxi driver, who, at the peril of his own life, stopped two armed robbers in their tracks on Saturday in Accra, deserves national recognition, former President Jerry Rawlings has said.
The Police appeared on the scene afterwards to take control of the situation and arrest the robbers.
Ife has alleged «With my encounter today, it's safe to say SARS are armed robbers.
The broad day light Koala Supermarket robbery has taken a new twist as your authoritative newspaper, The Republic, (www.GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com) can reveal that one of the robbers is a brother to New Patriotic Party (NPP) chieftain and former Member of Parliament, Sheikh I.C Quaye.
Gun - wielding armed robbers trailed the man popularly known as Alhaji after he left the bank at about 11:30 am in his Toyota Corolla vehicle.
Central regional Chairman of the NDC, Ben Allotey Jacobs told Starr News that it is clear that the robbers were seeking for information on the party's biometric registration exercise.
Investigations by this paper into the backgrounds of the two robbers who shot a Koala worker in broad daylight at Cantonments in Accra, have revealed that one of the robbers, Oko Quaicoo -30, who was the rider of the motor cycle used during the operation, is a brother of Sheikh Ibrahim Cudjoe Quaye, former MP of Ayawaso Central Constituency in the Greater Accra Region.
Last week Thursday, a policeman was shot and killed by suspected robbers at the Open Space Hotel in Dechemouso with another person surviving gunshots wounds in the attack.
Information reaching us indicates a police patrol team at Kintampo has allegedly shot and killed a fellow police officer by mistake, in a shootout with arm robbers.
The robbers numbering about five according to the security man at post, ransacked all the offices in the building and made away with an amount of Ghc 3,000 and a 32 inch Samsung plasma TV.
He mentioned that though no one had been arrested in connection with those weapons, he believed that the retrieval would thwart the plot of the robbers who might have deposited them in that bush for a planned robbery attack.
And when he was put before court, the same people who collect goats to release armed robbers released him, and where was the Peace Council then, where was Rev Asante?»
He pointed out that by the time the police got to the site, the armed robbers had absconded but left the weapons there, which they (police) took and sent to the police station.
Western Region Police Commander, DCOP Alex Quainoo, told Joy News two suspected armed robbers were killed while retrieving some of the arms.
Parts of the Ashanti region, particularly Kumasi, have come under siege from gangs suspected to be armed robbers in recent time.
This is because they are not ordinary criminals like armed robbers, who would not want to die.
Consequent on the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, deployment of high - powered Police Investigation Team, Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), Three (3) units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Anti-Robbery equipment to Kwara State to carryout discreet investigation into the banks robbery, prevent further attacks and bring perpetrators to justice; the high - powered Police Investigation Team deployed in synergy with the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department have arrested the Nine (9) above mentioned Armed Robbers directly involved in the Banks Robbery and attack on a Police Station in Offa, Kwara State.
Security guards are also most effective against attackers who do not want to be caught or harmed, such as armed robbers.
vi) Jimoh Isa 28 yrs Native of Okene Kogi State indicted by Technical intelligence generated on the Bank Robbers.
«The robbers dragged Madam Donkor from the vehicle and snatched her travelling bag containing $ 30,000, a plane ticket, a Ghanaian passport, a voter's ID card and GH cents 2,000 and escaped,» the prosecution added.
The taxi driver, who, at the peril of his own life, stopped two armed robbers in their tracks on Saturday in Accra,...
It came as no surprise, that in the wake of the recent killing of Inspector Emmanuel Ashlevi while on duty by armed robbers who invaded the police station at Dome, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region, to free their colleagues who were held by the station awaiting trial, the religious unit of the Ghana Police Service has taken to the organization of prayer sessions for divine intervention.
In parts, the trip required our best Indiana Jones qualities as we hacked our way through dense undergrowth to uncover uncharted Mayan burial sites visited alas only by grave robbers.
Who defended sheep against robbers.
CHICAGO — Two separate packs of robbers, including juveniles as young as 13, were arrested for a string of robberies across Chicago's North Side over the last two weeks, police announced today.
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«It is written,» he said to them, ««My house will be called a house of prayer but you are making it a den of robbers.
(For example, if your child says, «Turn on all the lights in the house so the robbers can't kill us» instead of «I'm scared of the dark.»)
«We'll be playing a game of cops and robbers,» said the official.
Despite tightening security following Friday night's attacks on F1 personnel in Brazil, members of Pirelli's team were targeted by robbers.
Formula 1 will look into the security issues that marred last weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix weekend as several teams were attacked by robbers.
«Closing them down» sounds more like a technique used by bank robbers, but that is probably beside the point.
In fairness to Di Maria, however, off - field incidents have clearly affected him and his family enduring the ordeal of having robbers attempt to invade his home while the Argentine was present.
But some decades earlier, even during the lifetime of Jesus, leaders of bands of robbers appeared again and again throughout the land.
Here they report that the robbers crucified with Jesus joined in reviling him (Mk 15:32; Mt 27:44).
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: «God, I thank you that I am not like other people — robbers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector.
We may well ask ourselves where we would have stood with reference to Calvary — below the average, with the outlaws, condemned by the general body of public opinion; on the average with the multitude, whose organized public opinion slew alike robbers and Christ; or above the average, with Christ himself.
Murderers, horse thieves, highway robbers, and counterfeiters fled here until they combined and actually formed a majority.
If the government prominently promoted free rubber bullets for armed robbers they would become party
Robbers wearing a devil mask and a balaclava broke into a church before locking a priest in a cupboard... More
During the 1997 North Hollywood Bank Shootout in California, a time when Assault Weapons were (and still are) illegal in California, two bank robbers armed with illegal assault weapons and illegal 100 round magazines held off 200 policemen armed with only shotguns and handguns for 20 minutes, injuring 17 people before they were taken down.
... Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eves?
Why leave them open to wolf attacks, wandering bears and robbers?
No Security could have been to our persons; no Certainty, no Enjoyment of our Possessions; no Justice between Man and Man; no Distinction between Good and Bad, between Friends and Foes, between Father and Child, Husband and Wife, Male or Female; but all would have been turned topsy - turvy, by being exposed to the Malice of the Envious and ill - Natured, to the Fraud and Violence of Knaves and Robbers, to the Forgeries of the crafty Cheat, to the Lusts of the Effeminate and Debauched, and what not!
It seemed possible the peasants would win: «If I get home I shall prepare for death with God's help, and await my new lords, the murderers and robbers
Matthew and Luke omit this but agree with Mark that Jesus said, «It is written, «My house shall be called a house of prayer», but you make it a den of robbers
The idea was that Luther should be kidnapped by unknown robbers and spirited away to some place where he could remain hidden.
The quotation is from Isaiah 56:7; the statement echoes Jeremiah's protest (7:11), «Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?»
After Herod's accession he suppressed Galilean «robbers» (probably revolutionaries) and finally recaptured Jerusalem.
Even if, O monks, robbers and murderers would sever one's members with a double - toothed saw, one by one, that person, if his spirit be filled with rage, would not be practicing my religion.
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