The Western North Regional Police Command has arrested a man believed to be behind a violent robbery attack at a mining site near Sefwi Antobia in the Juaboso District.
The Ghana Police Service, in a Facebook post, said the suspect, identified as Victor Biney, also known as Abeiku, was picked up on Monday, November 17, 2025. He has long been on the police wanted list over multiple robbery incidents across the region.
His arrest followed a report that seven masked and armed men had stormed a mining site, attacked miners with cutlasses, and made off with quantities of gold concentrate and several mobile phones.
According to preliminary police investigations, the gang, wielding pump-action and single-barreled guns, subjected the miners to brutal assaults before fleeing with the stolen items.
Witnesses reported that three of the attackers wore distinctive smocks, one of which was adorned with talismans, while another was dressed in a military shirt.
A subsequent search at Biney’s shrine in Attakrom led officers to recover a military camouflage shirt, a pair of handcuffs, two cutlasses, a single-barrel gun, several flashlights, seventeen AAA live cartridges, multiple smocks, mercury, traces of gold concentrate, and the butt of a pump-action gun.
Police believe the items are linked to the robbery.
At the police station, the suspect admitted ownership of several of the recovered exhibits. The victims later identified some of the flashlights, the mercury, the gold concentrate and three smocks as items stolen during the raid.