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ARR-001 · 13 Aug 2026
Augustine Okechuku Maazi
Arrested / Under Investigation
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Jurisdiction Labone, Accra
Ghana Police reported Maazi's arrest during an operation that allegedly disrupted a planned robbery targeting three banks. No conviction was reported; the allegations remain subject to investigation and court process.
Source: Ghana Police-supplied Crime Watch Global report
ARR-002 · 25 Aug 2026
Kakoza Derrick · Mukalasi John Bosco
Aliases: Ali Junior (Mukalasi)
Arrested / Detained
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Jurisdiction Kajjansi, Uganda
Uganda Police reported both suspects detained in an aggravated home-robbery investigation in which assailants were allegedly armed with pangas. The cited police release does not record a conviction.
ARR-003 · 20 Jul 2026
G/Cpl Suleman Ayuba Gbana · Adam Siba
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Tamale, Ghana
Sentence: 25 years' imprisonment
A Tamale court convicted the former police officer and his accomplice of armed robbery. Reporting said investigators recovered a police pistol, ammunition, handcuffs and a handbag.
ARR-004 · 6 Aug 2026
Thomas Opoku
Aliases: Akwasi Dekye
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Bekwai, Ghana
Sentence: 15 years' imprisonment
The Bekwai Circuit Court convicted Opoku of conspiracy and robbery after a student was robbed at gunpoint with a single-barrel firearm.
ARR-005 · 25 Jun 2026
Uche Onu · Ekene Okorie · Celestine Eze
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Ondo State, Nigeria
Sentence: Death sentences reported
An Ondo State High Court convicted the three defendants under Nigeria's robbery and firearms legislation and imposed death sentences.
ARR-006 · 10 Feb 2026
Enock Appiah
Aliases: Odanka
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Tarkwa, Ghana
Sentence: 15 years with hard labour
Appiah pleaded guilty and was sentenced for a weapon-involved robbery in which a hammer was used during the attack and later forfeited to police.
ARR-007 · 24 Apr 2026
Apolot Agnes · Akello Salume · Opali Justine · Opolon Isaac
Charged / Remanded
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Jurisdiction Soroti / Kitalya, Uganda
Uganda Police reported Agnes and Salume arrested in an aggravated-robbery and shooting investigation, while Justine and Isaac were already on remand on aggravated-robbery charges. The release records allegations, not convictions.
ARR-008 · 21 Apr 2026
Sbusiso Khumalo · Sihle Bright Mnguni
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Scottburgh, South Africa
Sentence: Effective 25 years each
The Scottburgh Regional Court sentenced both men for two knife-point robberies committed against the same spice shop on one day in September 2023.
Source: South African National Prosecuting Authority
ARR-009 · 17 May 2025
Dominic Afriyie
Aliases: GH
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Kumasi, Ghana
Sentence: 120 years for robbery counts plus life for murder
The Kumasi High Court convicted Afriyie in a gunpoint robbery and killing of pharmacist Michael Dela Agbo Klu. Police reporting said firearms were recovered after his arrest.
ARR-010 · 18 Apr 2025
Milki Ibrahim
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Mississippi, United States
Sentence: 12 years' imprisonment
Ibrahim pleaded guilty and was sentenced for an armed supermarket robbery in Gulfport. Prosecutors said he used a handgun and demanded money from the store.
Source: U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Mississippi
ARR-011 · 30 May 2025
Dyabana Odwa · Ngangelizwe Luthando · Qhayiso Siseko
Convicted
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Jurisdiction Eastern Cape, South Africa
An Eastern Cape High Court judgment records convictions including robbery with aggravating circumstances, pointing a firearm, attempted murder, kidnapping and unlawful firearm possession.
Source: South African Judiciary
ARR-012 · 28 Mar 2025
Aluta Hati · Lungisile Yekanye
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Makhanda, South Africa
The Eastern Cape High Court convicted the defendants of robbery with aggravating circumstances and related kidnapping, attempted-murder and firearm offences.
Source: South African Judiciary
ARR-013 · 27 Jan 2020
Patrick Omondi Opondo
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Kenya
Sentence: Resentenced to 10 years
Opondo had been convicted of robbery with violence involving clubs or rungus. After his original death sentence was commuted, the High Court resentenced him in 2020.
ARR-014 · 7 Oct 2020
Paul Odhiambo Asanya
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Nairobi, Kenya
Sentence: 25-year sentence retained on review
A High Court review records Asanya's conviction for robbery with violence involving a severe blunt-object assault during a 2010 Nairobi robbery.
ARR-015 · 31 Jul 2018
Moses Kagunya Nderitu
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Naivasha, Kenya
Sentence: Death sentence recorded
The High Court appeal record describes a robbery with violence in which assailants armed with rungus and metal bars stole a truck, hardware and cash and assaulted the victim.
ARR-016 · 19 Feb 2018
Mohammed Saleem Dawjee · Arno Heinrich Lamoer · Darius van der Ross · Kolindhren Govender
Convicted
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Jurisdiction Western Cape, South Africa
A Western Cape High Court judgment records guilty pleas and convictions on relevant counts connected to an armed robbery at Fish 4 Africa, while also recording acquittals on other counts.
ARR-017 · 28 Sep 2016
John Nderitu Irungu · Kenneth Kirimi · Peter Kimathi
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Nanyuki, Kenya
Sentence: Death sentences recorded at trial
The High Court appeal judgment records trial convictions on robbery-with-violence counts arising from an armed bar robbery at Camp George in 2014.
ARR-018 · 18 Nov 2013
John Kariuki Mwangi and three co-appellants
Prosecuted / Acquitted on Appeal
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Jurisdiction Ongata Rongai, Kenya
The defendants were initially convicted of robbery with violence after a 2006 pistol-armed robbery. In 2013, the High Court quashed the convictions and set aside the sentences. They are not listed as convicted.
ARR-019 · 17 Sep 2008
Raymond Aryee Aryeetey · Sarfo Sarpong · Michael Tagoe · Nana Osei
Aliases: Ataa Ayi (Aryeetey) · Razak (Osei)
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Accra, Ghana
Sentence: 25 years each in the cited case
An Accra court sentenced the defendants for conspiracy and an armed church robbery committed with guns in 2004. Aryeetey had separate armed-robbery convictions and sentences.
ARR-020 · 4 Mar 2008
Daniel Kimani · Charles Mwangi · Jackson Maina
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Nairobi, Kenya
Sentence: Death sentences recorded
The High Court appeal record describes a 2004 robbery with violence involving knives and rungus in which the victim was wounded.
ARR-021 · 25 Nov 2005
Peter Maina Muiruri
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Njoro, Kenya
Sentence: Death sentence recorded
The High Court appeal record describes a 2002 robbery with violence in which assailants armed with simis and knives stole cash and wounded the victim.
ARR-022 · Convicted 2003
Ogbonna Ogbojionu
Aliases: Ogbonna Igbojionu
Convicted & Sentenced
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Jurisdiction Ogun State, Nigeria
Sentence: Death sentence; gubernatorial pardon reported in 2025
Ogbojionu was arrested in 1999 and convicted in 2003 of armed robbery and murder arising from a petrol-station robbery. Ogun State later reported his release following a gubernatorial pardon.