Latest Liberia crime and courts news, including major investigations, criminal cases, trials and justice developments.
MONROVIA — A day after Criminal Court “C” ordered former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor moved from Monrovia Central Prison to guarded house detention on med…
The Criminal Court “C” on Thursday ordered the immediate transfer of former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor from the Monrovia Central Prison to heavily-guar…
MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor will leave the Monrovia Central Prison for guarded detention at her Sinkor residence after Criminal Court “…
MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been released from custodial detention on compassionate grounds, but her legal troubles remain unresolv…
Monrovia — Criminal Court “C” Judge Ousman F. Feika has granted former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor’s request for compassionate release from detention on…
Monrovia — A police investigator has testified in court about an alleged cocaine-trafficking operation in Liberia, telling the court that former Vice President…
KAKATA, Margibi County — September 4, 2026: The criminal trial involving several officers of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency is approaching its decisive pha…
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Like Nora Finda Bondoo before her, former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor walked into Liberia’s courtroom drama clad in white, an image l…
MONROVIA – For some litigants before Liberia’s Supreme Court, justice has been a wait measured not in months, but in more than a decade. That reality emerged pr…
MONROVIA — Coalition for Democratic Change Secretary-General Jefferson Koijee accused President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Thursday of ordering the arrest of former…
BOLA, Bomi County– Kumba Thomas returns home from a long day at her farm. Around her, life in the community continues at its ordinary pace, but ghosts follow Th…
MONROVIA — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has replaced his Minister of Justice and Attorney General, along with his Solicitor General, hours after former Preside…
Monrovia – Jefferson T. Koijee’s allegations place former Justice Minister N. Oswald Tweh’s dismissal inside Liberia’s increasingly charged opposition-governmen…
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, September 4, 2026: Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor is expected to appear before the Monrovia City Court on Friday, Septem…
Human trafficking increasingly reaches Liberians through attractive job, scholarship, travel and sporting offers that often conceal exploitation or organized fr…
PLEEBO, Maryland County — Armed men broke into the Cavalla Rubber Plantation before dawn on Sept. 1, injured three security officers and made off with about US$…
Monrovia — There was still no ruling Thursday on a motion for compassionate leave filed on behalf of former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor, as the presiding…
Monrovia — Former President George Manneh Weah has arrived at the Monrovia Central Prison to visit former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor, who is being held…
MONROVIA – Former President George Manneh Weah has sharply criticized the government’s handling of charges against former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor, wa…
MARYLAND COUNTY — Serious security and accountability questions are emerging following an armed robbery at the shared central office of the Cavalla Rubber Corpo…
MONROVIA – A grand jury has charged that George Wah Harria, alias Leroy Harris, owner of Private Bar Entertainment Center at Joe Bar in Paynesville, offered US$…
MONROVIA — A Montserrado County Grand Jury has indicted 10 defendants in connection with the alleged trafficking of a 200-kilogram cocaine shipment through Robe…
MONROVIA – A forensic examiner from Kigali has been ordered to appear in Monrovia to testify against a former National Security Agency official accused of rapin…
MONROVIA, September 3, 2026 — The Ministry of Justice has disputed claims that detained former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor secured the release of two pre…
