Crime

Three men were sentenced to 13 and 15 years in prison on Tuesday for importing large amounts of drugs. The men, aged 31, 45 and 46 were arrested by the drug squad (Ykan) in an ...

Nicosia police on Monday arrested a 34-year-old man for possession of military-grade ammunition and over one kilogram of cannabis. Officers from the drug squad with sniffer dogs had searched a ...

Police on Monday are investigating the origins of a large sum of money found hidden at a Nicosia residence. Following investigations, police arrested a 33-year-old woman for possession of illegal ...

Police arrested a 49-year-old man overnight in connection with an investigated case of car arson committed in Limassol. The fire had broken out around 1.30am on Sunday and police had ...

A 33-year-old man was found dead after a fire in Limassol on Sunday, just days after a deadly blaze claimed the lives of five people.  The fire broke out at ...

A man was mugged in Larnaca, with culprits getting away with €4,500, police said on Sunday. According to the police, based on a complaint “made by a 68-year-old man, around 8pm ...

A total of four employers and four workers were arrested after it was found that they had been employed illegally and that they did not have residence permits to live ...

Police on Thursday arrested a 47-year-old man in connection with the suspected forging of contracts for football players. He is the fourth person to have been placed under arrest as ...

A 23-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Larnaca criminal court for smuggling 11kg of cannabis with the intention of supplying it. The cannabis was found ...

A fire which completely destroyed a car in the early hours of Thursday morning in Limassol was set maliciously, the police said. The car belonged to a 70-year-old man, with ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 55-year-old man on Thursday, for an investigated case involving a large stash of cannabis which had been buried underground. The 55-year-old appeare before court on ...

Police have arrested two more people, aged 28 and 53, for an investigated case of real estate fraud in Limassol. Two persons aged 45 and 46 had previously been taken onto custody following their ...

Paphos police on Wednesday are investigating a case of vehicle theft, following their arrest of two suspects, aged 18 and 23. According to police headquarters, the 18-year-old was arrested on Tuesday at ...

A 24-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of stealing from his grandparents’ house. He was apprehended in Paphos after his grandparents complained on Monday that he stole items ...

A 48-year-old man was on Tuesday found guilty in the north of having fatally stabbed 40-year-old Vietnamese national Dam Thi Hop 33 times. Later on Tuesday afternoon, he was sentenced to 39 ...

A 45-year-old and a 46-year-old, arrested as suspects in a case of fraud involving real estate, were remanded for eight days by Limassol District Court on Monday. According to police, ...

Police on Monday arrested a 52-year-old man for child sexual abuse in the form of disseminating abuse online. Investigations of the electronic crime unit led police to search his residence, ...

A 70-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening after being found to have been almost five times over the legal alcohol limit to drive after running a 62-year-old woman over ...

Two people, aged 30 and 35, were arrested in Paphos on Friday for illegal possession of drugs, police said on Saturday. An arrest warrant was pending for both, and officers found the ...

Cyprus’ Police Chief, Themistos Arnaoutis, has ordered the immediate dismissal of a probationary officer who was arrested on Thursday in connection with an ongoing drug-related investigation. The decision, made with ...

A Pakistani national was sentenced to two years in prison in the north on Friday for his part in the “fake diploma scandal” which has engulfed the north’s higher ...

Police on Thursday arrested three persons in connection with the suspected falsification of contracts for football players. The three suspects – aged 58, 57 and 44 – later appeared before Famagusta district court, which approved ...

The Nicosia criminal court decided on Thursday that Israeli land developer Simon Aykut, charged with the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property in the north, will remain in custody until March 26, ...

A 20-year-old probationary police officer was arrested on Thursday, along with two other individuals, both 22 years old, regarding an ongoing drug case. They were brought before the Nicosia district court, ...