The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Court has remanded two persons into prison custody for allegedly stealing a single-barrelled short-gun belonging to a fetish priest.
Kwasi Ofori, 22, and Abdulai Musah, 43, both unemployed are charged with conspiracy, stealing, causing unlawful damage, carrying offensive weapon and possessing firearm without authority.
They would re-appear on February 28.
One other person known only as Boakye, a driver, is on the run.
Police Chief Inspector Isaac Mensah-Appenteng told the court presided over by Mr Justice William Boampong that on April 30, last year, some police officers were on routine motor check at the Trede Junction on the Kumasi-Bekwai highway when they saw a speeding taxi cab join the highway from a branch road.
They signalled the driver to stop and when the car pulled up they found a cutlass, hammer, hacksaw and a single-barrelled shot-gun in it.
Ofori and Musah were arrested but Boakye escaped as he sped off in the taxi-cab.
He said during police investigations, it came out that the accused persons broke into the room of Okomfo Kofi Tawiah, a fetish priest at Duampompo near Ejisu ,and stole the gun.