Crime Archives

Camp volunteer arrested for theft of relief aid

Mar 18, 2023 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Police in Blantyre have arrested 26-year-old Edward Walasi for stealing assorted items meant to benefit victims of cyclone Freddy at Manja Primary School Camp. According to Sergeant Aubrey Singanyama, deputy spokesperson for Blantyre Police, it… ...

Phalombe DC asks people to return property belonging to flood survivors

Mar 17, 2023 Chikondi Magalasi 0 &

Phalombe District Commissioner Douglas Moffat says some people took advantage of the floods to steal other people's property after the items were swept away. The DC has urged people who took other people's property to… ...

Two thieves die in tunnel in Zomba

Mar 15, 2023 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Two people have been found dead at Changalume Barracks in Zomba after a tunnel collapsed as they were stealing metal bars at abandoned Changalume Cement Company premises. Zomba Police Publicist Sergeant Aaron Chilala identified the… ...

Police investigating Chilobwe false alarm of fresh floods

Mar 15, 2023 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

The Malawi Police Service (MPS) says it has launched investigations on reports that some people deliberately sent a false alarm of fresh floods to victims at Naotcha Primary School evacuation camp in Chilobwe and surrounding… ...

Seven people arrested over murders in Lilongwe

Mar 13, 2023 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Seven people are in police custody in Lilongwe on suspicion that they are behind brutal killings of three people in the city. The seven suspects are residents of Area 36. Lilongwe Police Station Public Relations… ...

13-year-old boy arrested for allegedly killing grandmother

Mar 13, 2023 Gracious Zinazi 0 &

Police in Kasungu are keeping in custody a 13-year-old Yelemia Salowana for killing his 78-year-old grandmother over K15,000 which the woman got from a social cash transfer program. The elderly woman was a beneficiary of… ...

Police officers urged to be disciplined

Mar 13, 2023 Mike Kalumbi 0 &

Minister of Homeland Security Kenneth Zikhale Ng'oma has urged the country's police officers to be disciplined and to discharge their duties professionally. Ng'oma was speaking on Friday 10th March 2023, in Lilongwe during the first… ...

Two arrested over Chamba, medical drugs in Zomba

Mar 12, 2023 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Police in Zomba have arrested a 27-year-od woman and a 56-year-old man for being found with Chamba and medical drugs respectively. Zomba Police Station Deputy Publicist Sergeant Aaron Chilala identified the two as Patuma Mmadi… ...

Two arrested for possessing lndian hemp in Lilongwe

Mar 11, 2023 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Police at Lingadzi in Lilongwe have arrested two people for allegedly being found in possession of a total of 92 kilograms of Indian Hemp. Assistant Public Relation Officer for Lingadzi Police Station Constable Maria Kumwenda… ...

We are not keeping Towera Tanganyika — Police

Mar 10, 2023 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Blantyre Police Station has denied social media reports that Soche Sub-Station is keeping a young woman named Towera Tanganyika from Karonga District after she was abandoned by her social media boyfriend. Peter Mchiza, Public Relations… ...

Motorcycle Kabaza operator jailed 8 years for rape

Mar 10, 2023 Raphael Likaka 0 &

The Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday sentenced a 20-year-old Motorcycle Kabaza Operator, Ernest Banda, to 8 years imprisonment with hard labour for raping a 16-year-old girl. Deputy Public Relations Officer for Lingadzi Police Station… ...