{"id":17749,"date":"2026-01-11T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/17749\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:27:10","slug":"six-suspected-land-guards-arrested-firearms-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/17749\/","title":{"rendered":"Six suspected land guards arrested, firearms recovered\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Joyce Danso\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Accra, Jan. 11, GNA- The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has arrested six persons suspected of engaging in land guard activities and\u00a0possessing\u00a0firearms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police brief said the suspects were arrested following a distress call received on January 10, 2026, at about 1250 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It said police officers who responded to the call\u00a0encountered\u00a0a group of about 50 men who were allegedly firing at workers at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The brief said the police returned fire and pursued the suspects into a nearby bush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It said six\u00a0persons\u00a0were arrested out of the group, while others fled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police seized one AK-47 rifle with five rounds of ammunition, a Luger T9 pistol with five rounds of ammunition, a Regard MC pistol with 13 rounds of ammunition, and four motorbikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, together with the exhibits, were sent to the Accra Regional Police Headquarters for further investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Kenneth Sackey\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Joyce Danso\u00a0 Accra, Jan. 11, GNA- The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has arrested six persons suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79,909],"class_list":{"0":"post-17749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-ghana","9":"tag-greater-accra-region"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}