A Circuit Court in Accra on Thursday sentenced two Police Constables to 10-years' imprisonment each on charges of conspiracy and robbery.
Joseph Frimpong, 25 and Frank Boakye 27, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, intercepted a Malian Truck carrying GH¢120,000 cedis worth of spare parts and bicycles and stole its contents.
The court heard that they pulled out the truck driver and his two assistants into a waiting taxi, drove them into the middle of the Achimota Forest and abandoned them.
The truck was however found empty and abandoned on the Mallam Kasoa Motor way.
The convicts' accomplice, Solomon Antwi, who is the elder brother of Frimpong, is on the run.
In its sentence, the court noted that the convicts in their respective cautioned statement confessed to the crime only to lie "through their teeth" in the evidence before the court.
The court noted that their evidence was nothing "but fanciful possibilities calculated to defect the cause of justice".
It concluded that the convicts used force and assault to rob the complainant, his truck and its cargo.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) George Abavelim told the court that the complainant was Abdul Aziz, a Malian and a driver in charge of Benz Truck no D7218MZ.
According to ASP Abavelim, on August 14, last year, the convict who were among a group of six with three of them in uniform, stopped the truck near the Dzorwulu Traffic Light at about 1730 hours.
He said Boakye pulled the complainant and his two assistants out of the car and put them in a waiting taxi and later abandoned them in the Achimota Forest.
ASP Abavelim said the complainants however managed to find their way out to the Dzorwulu Traffic Light only to realise that their cargo truck had been moved away.
He said Mr Aziz however caused a radio announcement to be made and a caller informed the Police that the truck had been abandoned on the Mallam-Kasoa Motorway the next day.
Frimpong and Boakye were arrested based on an intelligence report the next day and during interrogation, they admitted the offence, the court heard.