A Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) official, Naomi Gondwe, got the humiliation of a lifetime when she was caught red-handed trying to steal a pair of shoes from PEP Stores in Mzuzu City last week. An eye witness, Samuel Kamanga, told Nyasa Times that Gondwe was locked in the shop for about an hour as a mob had steadily […]
Police in Lilongwe are keeping in custody 15 students from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) for theft and another charge of conduct likely to cause breach of peace on Saturday at NICO Center Metro shop in Lilongwe old town. Confirming the incidence, Lilongwe Police Station Public Relations Officer (PRO) Inspector Kingsley […]
Malawi Police Service in eastern district of Mangochi have arrested four people for allegedly stealing over K5.8 million belonging to Chibuku Products Limited (CPL). Of the four, two are CPL employees, identified as Levi Bakili and Joseph Mwale, who worked as cashier and driver, respectively while The other two are security guards, according to Thomeck […]
Mlawi Police Service in Blantyre have arrested Ndirande based businessman Ali Paseli alongside two Group Four-G4 Security guards on suspicion that they connived and stole 481 boxes of house tiles from Cross Roads Hotel in Blantyre currently under construction. Blantyre police Assistant Public Relations officer Andrew Mayawo said on Monday that Paseli connived with two […]
Mzuzu Police have arrested two teenage boys for allegedly producing fake documents which they used to swindle people out of their money amounting to K132, 700 by pretending to be orphans in need of secondary school fees. One of the teenagers (names withheld for legal reasons) even managed to swindle Mzuzu Court’s Principal Resident Magistrate […]
A man in Ntcheu has been arrested after he allegedly forced two boys to have sexual intercourse with two girls he found picking mangoes in his orchard, Police has confirmed. Ntcheu Police Public Relations Officer Hastings Chigalu said Mike Magwaya was upset when he found two boys and two girls separately plucking mangoes from his orchard. […]
Police in Lilongwe have arrested Shamir Osman aged 41 from Mitawa village, Traditional Authority (TA) Likoswe in Chiradzulu district for stealing money amounting to MK2, 380,000 from David Cao a Chinese businessman based in Area 9 in Lilongwe. Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) Sub Inspector Kingsley Dandaula said on the evening of August 9, […]
Police in Malawi’s eastern district of Mangochi are keeping custody a 21 year-old South African for allegedly stealing K500,000 from a local hotel where he was working as assistant manager in the district. The suspect, identified as Ruan De Klerk, was arrested by Mozambican police officers as he was trying to pass through that country […]
A 38-year-old man in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka has been sentenced to 40 months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a bull. Police Prosecutor Sergeant Hunter Masamba told the Second Grade Magistrate court that the suspect Evance Fatsani stole the bull which belongs to Mrs Catherine Mwadzera on 6th August, this year at Kuthambo village […]
Police in Mzuzu have charged two boys both 14 years old of an offence of attempt theft after they were caught and shot by two Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) guards in the early morning hours of Wednesday trying to steal telephone line cables at MTL offices in the city. The suspects Madalitso Banda and Yamikani Mshani both […]
Lilongwe-based businessperson Michael Msungama has been convicted by a court and jailed 18 months imprisonment, Nyasa Times has learnt. Msungama who runs a deluxe car hire, starring the only limousine in the capital, has been jailed in a case he was being accused of unlawfully acquiring property from outside the country including vehicles. Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Patrick […]
Senior Chief Kaomba of the central tobacco-growing district of Kasungu has been arrested on alleged theft of money by false pretence with two other accomplices. They appeared in court at Kasungu magistrates court where all have denied the charge but have been remanded to Kasungu Prison – also known as Matchaya prison. Kaomba’s arrest follows a petition by […]
The Blantyre Magistrates Court has sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) Data Entry Clerk, Hanleck Mbwetule for stealing external hard disk. Mbwetule was convicted on Tuesday for stealing an external hard disk from Commission’s ICT Department when he appeared before Magistrate Bodole to answer charge of theft by […]
A court in Kasungu district has sentenced teenager, John Chama, to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) after being found guilty of house breaking and theft of cash plus other assorted items. According to police, the 18-year-old boy broke into the house of Caroline Mgogo Kaipa at Mtondo ADMARC where he stole one 80kg […]
Employees at the Government Print in Lilongwe went to work Monday morning only to be surprised by the damage that has taken place at the premises after a break-in. Seven computers have been stolen by thugs. A source informed Nyasa Times that the two guards that man the security at the premises in the capital […]
Police in Mzuzu have arrested three teachers for allegedly stealing four computer sets worthy MK750,000 property of the Malawi Government. The suspects are Tumbikani Msowoya of Traditional Authority Jalavikuwa, Mzimba District, Richard Gondwe 29, of Betele village, Traditional Authority Mwachenga, Rumphi District , Patrick Gondwe 28 of Kantafu village Traditional Authority Katumbi, Rumphi District , […]
Police in Blantyre on Saturday arrested three men who on September 6th duped of Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) Limbe depot K11.2 million worth of goods using fake cheque. Police managed to apprehend the three, George Mhango 45, Blessings Mtika 35 and Blessings Banda 23 on Saturday morning after a long car-chase in the […]
An Accounts Assistant for the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Patrick Sithole has been arrested for alleged illegal possession of K120 million which was in different currencies. According to Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer Kingsley Dandaula, Sithole was arrested on September 7, 2013 following a tip off that the police got from the suspect’s housemaid who in fact stole part […]