Latest Liberia crime and courts news, including major investigations, criminal cases, trials and justice developments.
PAYNESVILLE, Liberia — A fresh confrontation involving defense counsel and Liberia’s Asset Recovery and Property Retrieval Taskforce (AREPT) has introduced a ne…
MINNEAPOLIS, United States, October 5, 2026 — Three Liberian nationals are among 10 noncitizens indicted by a federal grand jury in Minnesota for alleged voting…
Monrovia – When the Government of Liberia charged former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor in August, officials spoke with confidence. The state said it had th…
BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa County — Cllr. Charlyne M. Brumskine has credited the Liberty Party’s reconciliation and Senate Pro Tempore Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence’s lea…
MONROVIA – Three Liberians in Minnesota are among 10 noncitizens indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on charges of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to vote o…
The ongoing intellectual debate ignited by President Joseph Boakai’s maxim “a brilliant lawyer knows the law, but a good lawyer knows the judge” has given the p…
For five years, the legal saga of Cllr. A. Ndubuisi Nwabudike was defined by a single question of nationality: Is he Liberian?
Monrovia – Liberia’s mining sector is expanding faster than the institutions meant to police it. That is the warning at the heart of CENTAL’s latest interventio…
Monrovia – Peter Bon Jallah, on trial for alleged gang rape, statutory rape and kidnapping involving a 16-year-old boy, took the witness stand Thursday and accu…
Liberia’s Witness Protection Agency is proposing a five-year, US$20.54 million plan to build a nationwide system for protecting victims, witnesses and whistlebl…
MONROVIA – Police have charged the former head of the Liberia National Police Training Academy with taking US$88,000 in cash and goods from a businessman by pro…
Monrovia – Peter Bon Jallah’s lawyers asked Criminal Court “E” on Wednesday to end his trial before he ever had to answer the charges. Judge Wesseh Alphonsus We…
Monrovia – The 5,000 bags of Saudi-donated rice that prosecutors say never reached Gbarnga left the General Services Agency warehouse on 10 signed gate passes,…
Judge Wesseh Says Prosecution Evidence Requires Defense Response as Statutory Rape Trial Moves Forward
MONROVIA – Former Liberia National Bar Association President Tiawan Saye Gongloe said that President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s quip that a “good lawyer knows the ju…
MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai took his government’s report card to Liberians abroad. At a town hall in Olney, Maryland, he asked the Diaspora to move…
MONROVIA, September 30, 2026 — Liberian lawyer and law professor Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe has challenged President Joseph Boakai’s recent “know the judge” rema…
MONROVIA — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s name entered the courtroom record Monday as former General Services Agency (GSA) Director-General Mary T. Broh testif…
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — A lighthearted remark attributed to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai during his engagements around the 81st United Nations General Assembly has…
KAKATA, Margibi County – Two Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency officers assigned to Roberts International Airport were sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison, th…
MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has spent 41 days under state restraint. That duration has become a constitutional question in its own righ…
MONROVIA – Former General Services Agency (GSA) Director General Mary T. Broh has handed the Saudi rice trial defense a useful line. Testifying on Monday before…
Monrovia-Former General Services Agency Director General Mary T. Broh, delivered one of the defense’s strongest accounts Monday, September 28, in Liberia’s ongo…
Prosecution Given Until Tuesday to Resist Motion as Criminal Court “E” Suspends Trial; Rwandan Forensic Expert Says DNA Match Cannot Establish When or How Biolo…
