The Western North Regional Police Command has arrested a man suspected to be behind several robbery attacks on mining sites across the region after miners at Sefwi Antobia were assaulted during an overnight raid.
The suspect, identified as Victor Biney and popularly known as Abeiku, was picked up on Monday, November 17, 2025.
The arrest was confirmed in a police statement dated November 18, 2025.
According to the police, the arrest followed a report that seven armed and masked men had entered a mining site near Sefwi Antobia, where they attacked miners with cutlasses and fled with quantities of gold concentrate and several mobile phones.
The statement said preliminary investigations showed that the attackers were armed with pump-action and single-barrel guns and subjected the miners to heavy beatings during the raid.
Three of the men were said to be wearing distinctive smocks. One of the smocks had talismans on it, while another of the attackers wore a military shirt.
Police officers later searched Biney’s shrine at Attakrom, where they retrieved items said to be connected to the robbery.
These included a military camouflage shirt, a pair of handcuffs, two cutlasses, a single-barrel gun, several flashlights, seventeen AAA live cartridges, multiple smocks, mercury, particles of gold concentrate, a pump-action gun butt and other items.
The police said Biney admitted ownership of several of the retrieved items during interrogation.
The victims identified some of the flashlights, the mercury, the gold concentrate and three of the smocks as items taken from them during the attack.
They also indicated that the military shirt and some of the smocks matched what the attackers wore on the night of the robbery.
Biney was arraigned before the Juaboso District Court on November 17, 2025, and was remanded into police custody.
He is expected back in court on December 8, 2025.
The police said a search is under way for the remaining six men who are still on the run.
