Crime

Five people, arrested on suspicion of smuggling irregular migrants into the Larnaca and Famagusta districts, were remanded for six days on Saturday. Police said three people were arrested after a ...

The Paphos court on Friday acquitted a 30-year-old man accused of the rape and kidnapping of a woman. Both the accused and the complainant are third country nationals. The offences ...

A man received a 12-year concurrent prison sentence on Friday after he was found guilty of six charges related to sexual abuse of a minor. Limassol criminal court also issued ...

A pensioner was scammed out of nearly €18,000 by a person pretending to be a bank employee, Limassol police said on Friday. The woman told police she received a phone call ...

Police said on Friday they arrested a 34-year-old man who broke into a 48-year-old woman’s flat claiming he was chased by five people. According to Paphos CID chief and ...

An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of being one of the suspects in an armed robbery that took place in June in Paphos, police said on Friday. The ...

The municipal park ‘Piraeus’ in Larnaca has been targetted by vandals just months after an arson attack on the children’s play area. “Once again a municipal park fell ‘victim’ ...

British bases police netted a poacher for illegal bird trapping in the Pyla range of Xylophagou and he is now due to appear in court on September 19. The Greek Cypriot ...

Police on Thursday said they arrested a 31-year-old for drunk driving over twice the limit and speeding over twice the limit on the highway. According to police, the man was ...

Paphos criminal court on Wednesday found a man guilty of raping the underage daughter of his partner. The next hearing was set on September 20 this year for plea in mitigation ...

Police on Wednesday said they arrested a 40-year-old man after he fought an injured a 42-year-old in Paphos on Tuesday evening. According to police the two men were reported to ...

Police have arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly obstructing an officer in the execution of his duty, assaulting a police officer and for illegally possessing a narcotic substance. During the ...

Paphos traffic police recorded 82 traffic violations during a coordinated operation in the last 24 hours. According to Paphos CID chief and spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, traffic police carried out multiple traffic checks ...

Police on Wednesday arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with multiple cases of arson. According to police, at around 1.50am on Wednesday authorities were tipped about parked vehicles burning in ...

Four people were arrested on Tuesday for instigating incidents at a migrant accommodation centre in Menoyia the previous evening. Ugly scenes broke out at the Limnes reception centre when migrants ...

Two men aged 23 and 20 were arrested on Monday to facilitate police investigations into an ongoing case of assisting third-country nationals in illegally entering Cyprus by sea on Thursday, September 1. In ...

Europol executive director Catherine De Bolle and Justice Minister Stefi Drakou discussed issues of common interest, and ways to deal with organised crime and terrorism at their meeting on Monday. ...

Paphos police on Sunday night stopped a car in Emba driven by a 22-year-old man with a 31-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man as passengers. During the check, the 31-year-old ...

Four people were remanded by the Paphos court on Sunday for five days, two for alleged impersonation using travel documents and the other two for other offences including aiding and ...

Members of the police bicycle unit handled 106 out-of-court traffic complaints last month, Paphos police said on Sunday. According to a the head of the traffic police, Michalis Nicolaou, the members ...

An explosive device went off outside a house in Nicosia early on Sunday, police said. According to police, at 4.15am they received information that an explosion had occurred outside a ...

Limassol police on Saturday night found two dummy explosive devices attached to two cars owned by an Israeli couple, permanent residents of Cyprus. According to police, the dummies were found ...

Paphos police on Saturday night raided three establishments in Paphos, confiscating sound equipment that violated regulations on noise pollution, they said. Two sound consoles, two amplifiers and five speakers were ...

A driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run collision in which a cyclist was killed early in Saturday has been arrested after turning himself into police. Romanian national Cristian Rosu, 25, was ...