Crime

Two men, aged 27 years old and 19 years old, appeared in court on Monday after having been arrested for allegedly attacking a footballer in the car park of a football ground ...

An appeals court has ordered the release of two persons accused of aiding and abetting Swedish fugitive Hans Jonny Uven in his escape, after deeming that the two are not ...

Limassol police arrested a 39 and 45-year-old under suspicion of breaking into a warehouse and stealing tools from the Turkish Cypriot property management service on Sunday night. The suspects were stopped ...

A Limassol man was cheated out of €430,000 in a cryptocurrency scam, police said on Monday. Police said the scammers pretended to represent a reliable investment platform and had promised profits ...

Larnaca police were continuing investigations on Monday after five people were arrested and subsequently remanded for smuggling 10,500 boxes of cigarettes, as well as other offences. Police said the five suspects, ...

A 38-year-old Nicosia resident was arrested for 17 cases of car theft and damage carried out in the capital and Larnaca, police said on Sunday. The suspect was spotted driving in ...

A 15-year-old was arrested at Limassol’s marina area on Saturday night after he was spotted boasting a gun to his friends, police said on Sunday. An off-duty police officer ...

The police on Saturday said they are investigating what they believe to be an attempted murder carried out in the Limassol district village of Souni the previous day. The incident ...

The police believe there was “malicious intent” behind a fire which broke out in a high school in Limassol shortly after midnight on Saturday. The fire broke out in a ...

A 23-year-old man from Nicosia was arrested in Larnaca for illegal drug possession on Thursday. Police were operating a patrol in Athinon avenue, when they stopped the 23-year-old driver. A ...

A 23-year-old from Britain was handed a 12-year prison sentence on Thursday for smuggling over 20kg of cannabis into Cyprus in December 2023. Larnaca criminal court heard that the young man ...

Police on Friday are investigating an overnight shooting in Limassol’s Ayios Andreas area, at an investment company’s offices. According to police, seven shots were fired by a motorcycle ...

A 47-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Larnaca criminal court on Thursday after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit a felony, transportation ...

Police have identified a suspect who is now wanted in connection with a death threat made against President Nikos Christodoulides, the authority said on Wednesday in a post on social ...

Police have now arrested a total of five suspects as of Thursday for incidents of violence outside the Apollon stadium last month. The most recent arrest made was of a 32...

Serdal Gunduz, the secretary-general and 30-per-cent shareholder of Morphou’s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU), on Wednesday pointed the finger at ‘MPs’ from the north’s largest party ...

Huseyin Tufekci, the director of Turkish Cypriot construction company the Tufekci Group, was arrested on Wednesday, accused of forging documents to win a tender for the construction of the north’...

A 56-year-old Paphos man is in police custody on Wednesday after the drug squad arrested him while driving and seized a large quantity of narcotics. According to information released by ...

An improvised bomb was discovered on Wednesday morning at the entrance of a real estate agency in Kiti, Larnaca district. According to the police, the device failed to detonate due ...

A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old are in police custody on Wednesday in connection with arson of a kindergarten and a car in Nicosia. The teenagers were arrested on Tuesday for ...

A 32-year-old man was on Tuesday sentenced to three years in prison by the Famagusta district court. He was sentenced after being found guilty of possessing a firearm, ammunition and ...

Two individuals in Limassol have reported losing nearly $3 million in cryptocurrency following a fraud incident, police said on Tuesday. They alleged they were targeted by a scam, and a 32-year-old ...

A firecracker was thrown at the parking lot of a home in Aradippou on Monday, police said. Police received a report of an explosion at around 1am in an area ...

Police arrested a 24-year-old man on Sunday in connection with ongoing investigations into a case of child pornography. Investigations began after a Europol tipoff that an online app user had ...