The Central East Regional Police Command has arrested 35-year-old Benjamin Owusu for staging a robbery and kidnapping incident at Fijai, Millennium City.
According to the police, the young man killed a duck and used its blood to fake an attack after failing to account for money belonging to his employer.
The police stated that on September 3, 2025, the Millennium City District Police Command received a report from a complainant who informed them that he received a text message from the victim—now suspect—stating he was under a robbery attack at his residence.
A team was later dispatched to the scene but didn’t find the victim, now suspect, there.
The police discovered bloodstains on the floor of his bedroom, suggesting he might have been harmed. However, after samples of the bloodstains were lifted from the floor of his room for forensic analysis, it turned out to be that of a duck and not human blood.
”The results of the blood samples from the Police Forensic Crime lab proved negative for human blood after a DNA examination.”
According to the police, the suspect abandoned the SIM card he had earlier used to send the text message to the complainant.
”However, he later succeeded in replacing the old Sim Card and subsequently made phone calls from a specific location at Elubo in the Western Region on 5th September, 2025.”
The statement added, “Intelligence gathered by a dedicated team of Investigators regarding the activities of the suspect led to the arrest of the suspect at his hideout at Akatamanso in the Ashanti Region on 24th September, 2025.
Upon his arrest, the suspect revealed that, he intentionally killed a duck and stained his bedroom floor with its blood to stage his kidnapping because he could not account for monies in his custody belonging to his employer. He will be put before Court to face justice after completion of investigations.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
