Latest Liberia crime and courts news, including major investigations, criminal cases, trials and justice developments.
MONROVIA, Liberia, September 10, 2026 — Former Liberian rebel commander Roland Duo has endorsed the establishment of a War and Economic Crimes Court in Liberia,…
HARPER, Maryland County — Four men indicted for the mob killing of Josephine Sieh walked out of the 4th Judicial Circuit Court on Monday after the judge found t…
MONROVIA — The Liberia National Police (LNP) has charged the former head of its criminal investigations division with accepting a US$10,000 bribe to compromise…
Senator Samuel G. Kogar has told citizens of Nimba that the controversy surrounding the establishment of a War and Economic Crimes Court (WECC) was primarily in…
MONROVIA — The former head of the Liberia National Police’s Crime Services Department will answer bribery and obstruction charges from outside a cell, after a M…
MONROVIA, Liberia, September 9, 2026 — Former Liberia National Police (LNP) Crime Services Commissioner Johnny Bolar Dean has been charged and forwarded to cour…
PLEEBO, Maryland County, September 9, 2026 — The Fourth Judicial Circuit Court in Maryland County has sentenced two men to 30 years each in prison for the murde…
As Jewel Howard-Taylor’s criminal case advances through Liberia’s justice system, her family and supporters are mounting a parallel battle in the court of publi…
Monrovia — A coalition of Liberian civil society organizations has accused the Joseph Nyuma Boakai administration of dragging its feet on the establishment of L…
Monrovia— Former Liberia National Police Commissioner for Crime Services Johnny Bolar Dean has been released from custody on a US$15,000 property valuation bond…
MONROVIA – A criminal case involving former Liberia National Police Crime Services Commissioner Johnny Bolar Dean has moved beyond internal police scrutiny and…
Monrovia-Businessman Cassell Anthony Kuoh is facing a US$50,000 action of debt before the Debt Court for Montserrado County after allegedly failing to honor a p…
Monrovia-Former Liberia National Police Commissioner for Crime Services Johnny Bolar Dean has been forwarded to court and charged with criminal conspiracy, brib…
MONROVIA — The Liberia National Police has charged the former head of its criminal investigations arm with taking US$10,000 to compromise a US$317 million drug…
MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor walked away from the hearing that would have tested the state’s cocaine-trafficking evidence because the co…
HARPER, Maryland County — September 7, 2026: The Fourth Judicial Circuit Court in Maryland County has sentenced Dougbe Newton and Friday Newton to 30 years in p…
MONROVIA – The legal team of Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has shifted its strategy from preliminary examination to trial amid a dispute over eviden…
Former Vice President Cllr. Jewel Howard-Taylor has been granted compassionate medical leave from pre-trial detention by Criminal Court “C” Judge Ousman F. Feik…
Monrovia-Fear and confusion briefly gripped the courtyard of the Monrovia City Court on Monday after a Liberia National Police officer unexpectedly discharged a…
Monrovia-Lawyers representing former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor have withdrawn their request for a preliminary examination of evidence in the State’s al…
MONROVIA – The Supreme Court’s dismissal of an ethics complaint against Labour Minister Cooper W. Kruah ends a dispute dating to 2014. It distinguishes an attor…
A Margibi County corruption case — backed by a paper trail of prosecutors asking, three separate times, for a trial date — is raising hard questions about wheth…
Monrovia — The Supreme Court of Liberia has dismissed a long-running complaint against Labour Minister Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah, Sr., clearing him of allegations t…
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, September 4, 2026: Criminal Court “C” has ordered former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor released from the Monrovia Central Pris…
