Man Jailed Nine Months For Stealing a television and other valuables
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced an unemployed man to nine months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a-32-inch LG television set, cash of GH₵1,000.00 and an empty money box valued at GH₵135.00.
Joshua Alarbi pleaded guilty to unlawful entry and stealing and was ordered to serve his sentence at the Ankaful Prisons.
Police Chief Inspector Eric Pobee told the court presided over by Madam Kizita Naa Koowa Quarshie that the complainant, Mr Stephen Nana Sarpong Dodoo, was the manager for Biney Apartments located at Nungua Addogono, Accra.
Alarbi, the convict, is the complainant’s neighbour.
The prosecution said on June 25, 2023, at about midnight, Alarbi entered one of the apartments belonging to Silas Confidence Beauty, a witness in the case on the first floor of the apartments, through a balcony window and ransacked the room whilst she was away on a visit to a friend at East Legon.
The prosecution said the convict stole the television fixed in the apartment, cash of GH₵1,000.00 and an empty money box.
During the act, one of the tenants, who was awake, spotted the convict and raised the alarm.
He was then arrested and sent to the police station to be arraigned.