Two Arrested Over Dzorwulu Jewellery Shop Robbery After Months-Long Police Hunt

Two men are in police custody after detectives cracked a brazen armed robbery at a jewellery shop in one of Accra’s upscale neighbourhoods — a case that had gone unsolved for more than five months.

The Ghana Police Service announced on Wednesday that Abubakar Mamoud and Mahmoud Abdul Aziz, also known as Justin Martin, were arrested on February 24 at Anyaa in the Greater Accra Region, following sustained intelligence operations by a specialised team from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters.

The arrests stem from a robbery on September 11, 2025, when two armed men on a motorbike descended on a jewellery shop near the Nyaho Clinic at Dzorwulu in Accra. The attackers assaulted a shop attendant, smashed a glass door, and fled with assorted jewellery.

The haul recovered from the suspects’ rooms tells a story of premeditation. Detectives retrieved a hammer — believed to have been used to shatter the shop’s glass door — alongside a black face mask, a toy pistol, a gold detector, a gold weighing scale, a diamond detector, a backpack, hand gloves, a helmet, and two motorbikes.

The toy pistol is a detail that will raise eyebrows. It suggests the robbers may have intimidated their victim with a fake weapon — a calculated risk that ultimately did not save them from the law.

Under interrogation, both suspects admitted to the offence and fingered a third individual — identified only as Eddy of Oyarifa — as the receiver of the stolen jewellery. Police say efforts are underway to locate and arrest him. Until Eddy is in custody, a critical piece of this case remains open.

Mamoud and Abdul Aziz are expected to appear before court on Thursday, March 26.
The case underscores a broader pattern of motorbike-enabled street crime in Accra, where the mobility of two-wheeled getaway vehicles has made robberies increasingly difficult to prevent at the point of attack. That the CID ultimately closed in on the suspects through intelligence work, rather than catching them in the act, signals a more methodical approach to tackling such crimes.