The Bekwai Circuit Court has remanded four persons believed to be part of a robbery gang of five.
The gang is said to be in connection with a robbery.
The suspects, Kwabena Boafo, alias Vladimir or Guantanamobey, Baah Ishmael, Richard Boafo, and Prince Agyei were armed with a machete, two single barrels, and a pump-action gun.
They are alleged to have robbed commuters of their mobile phones and monies.
They denied conspiring to rob Nyame Emmanuel, Frederick Obuobi, Amoako Richard, Adwoa Kusase, Shamaudeen Mohammed, Francis Aboagye, and Doris Aboagye.
However, their accomplice whose name was not given is currently on the run.
Police Detective Chief Inspector Eric Twum told the Court that Kwabena is a 36-year-old labourer, Ishmael, 32, is a trader, Richard, a small scale miner, and Agyei, a driver, both, 24.
He said the complainants were drivers and passengers who were traveling from Adansi-Nsokote to Adansi- Asokwa and that on May 23, 2022.
Inspector Twum said at about 1630 hours, the accused persons together with the one at large armed with two single barrels, one pump action gun, and eleven (11) AAA cartridges onboard a Chevrolet Matix 3 taxi cab with the registration number BA 2855-17, proceeded to between Adansi-Aboabo and Adansi-Nsokote stretch, and passed the night in the cocoa farm.
The prosecution said on May 24, 2022, at about 600hours, the gang in facemasks, loaded the guns with the eleven AAA cartridges and with the machete blocked the aforementioned road, and hid in the bush to rob unaware motorists.
It said the complainants were onboard a Hyundai Grace Minibus with the registration number AW 2011-Z plying the road to Adansi-Asokwa and on reaching that point, the gang of five who had already laid an ambush, robbed them of their assorted mobile phones and an unspecified amount of money at gunpoint.
The prosecution said a Kia Rhino truck loaded with sachet water with three persons onboard and a driver, three motor riders, and their pillion riders also fell victims to the robbery expedition.
It said the town folks upon a tip-off pursued the accused persons with guns and other implements in the bush and arrested Kwabena, Ismael, Richard as well as Agyei and handed them to the police.
The prosecution said during Police Investigations, that Kwabena and Ishmael led Police to the crime scene and retrieved the two single barrel guns, one pump action gun, eleven AAA cartridges, six mobile phones, and Four Hundred and Forty-Three Ghana cedis (GHC 443.00).
