Crime

Traffic police arrested an 38-year-old motorist on Saturday night for speeding along the motorway at 197km per hour. The legal speed limit on Cyprus motorways is 100km per hour. The ...

A 27-year-old tourist was being treated for his injuries at Paphos general hospital overnight after he was allegedly attacked and robbed. Police were informed of an injured person at Paphos ...

A 32-year-old food delivery man attacked and robbed at knife-point on Saturday night in Nicosia. The delivery man reported to police that at 9.30pm, while he was delivering an order ...

A new case of child pornography is being investigated by the police after the arrest of a 42-year-old man on Friday to facilitate investigations. The suspect was subsequently presented before ...

A 69-year-old man, who allegedly shot his 45-year-old son last week while they were at their home in Pyrga in the Larnaca district, was on Friday referred directly to trial ...

A 17-year-old was arrested on Friday morning after a car belonging to a 35-year-old women was set on fire. According to a police statement, the blaze started in the early ...

Paphos police are investigating a case of possession of drugs and driving under the influence of drugs after stopping a vehicle driven by a 25-year-old woman late on Thursday. A ...

A 54-year-old man, a permanent resident of Paphos, has been jailed for one month for driving under the influence of alcohol and causing a traffic accident. A Paphos police spokesman ...

Two men aged 24 and 21 were sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Larnaca court on Thursday for people smuggling. The two men were first arrested last ...

A 22-year-old man accused of raping three tourists in Ayia Napa is due to appear before Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court on June 29. The man appears to have confessed to the crimes ...

A 33-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a bank robbery in Kiti earlier in the day. According to police, at around 10.40am a person wearing a medical ...

The labour department, in cooperation with the police, carried out checks for illegal and undeclared employment on Monday, with nine arrests and three fines being issued in Limassol. The violations ...

Two Nicosia youths were arrested and charged with stealing backpacks at a Protaras beach, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Monday. The two men are aged 19 and 20. Famagusta district police ...

A 32-year-old in Paphos was remanded for eight days after he was arrested for a series of burglary and theft cases. According to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis Nicolaou, a total ...

Three people have been arrested over attempting to steal a catalytic converter from a car and damaging it in the process, police announced on Sunday. The three people, aged 23, 28 and 33, ...

Shoplifters are getting creative, the latest gadget in their disposal being a special bag that bypasses shops’ anti-theft scanners, police warned on Saturday as they published the photographs of suspects ...

A 20-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling €24,000 from the company she worked for in Limassol. If indicted, she faces charges of theft and money laundering. According to ...

Cocaine weighing 6.5 kilos was found by the police drug squad (Ykan) in Limassol on Friday as part of a large-scale operation which is currently underway. A police statement also said ...

A 35-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Friday after he tried to pick up a post office parcel with illegal drugs in Larnaca. The suspect was arrested on ...

A Nicosia police officer with sticky fingers is under investigation for a spate of shoplifting incidents, which were recorded on video, but despite his arrest and the evidence against him, ...

Two more suspects, both aged 26, were arrested in relation to an armed robbery in Paphos. The case was reported to the police by a 44-year-old man on Tuesday who said ...

Three men have been arrested for attempted kidnap after a good Samaritan was able to come to the woman’s aid and call police in Limassol late on Thursday night. ...

A 69-year-old man, who has admitted to shooting his son twice during an argument, was remanded in custody for eight days on Friday. The court convened at Larnaca general hospital, ...

A 69-year-old man was arrested late on Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder, after he told police he had shot his son with a shotgun. Police said the man turned ...