Crime

Shots were fired at two vehicles outside a holiday home in a Larnaca district village on Tuesday, police said. The incident was reported around 11.30am on Monday by a 32-year-old ...

Police warned the public about a scam involving text messages on Tuesday sent to mobile phones claiming to relate to unpaid traffic tickets. The messages contain a link directing recipients ...

Court proceedings in the private criminal prosecution brought by the family of Thanasis Nicolaou advanced, after prosecutors submitted a revised indictment against five former officials, with preliminary objections now scheduled ...

Two defendants accused in the Pyla torture case appeared before the Larnaca permanent criminal court on Monday, with one alleging abusive prosecution and the other challenging his continued detention. The ...

The Nicosia permanent criminal court on Monday unanimously ruled that Giorgos Christodoulou, also known as Zavrantonas, will remain in custody pending the retrial of the high-profile case concerning the importation ...

A drug trafficking sentence for possession of 12.9kg cannabis was increased from nine to 12 years on Monday by the court of appeal. During his initial trial, the defendant admitted possession ...

Four men accused of participating in a criminal organisation on Monday saw their trial adjourned until September 16, with proceedings set to continue before the Larnaca Permanent Criminal Court. Three of ...

Two people were arrested overnight during coordinated operations carried out in urban areas, the police said on Monday. One of the arrests involved offences including assaulting a police officer. The ...

Police arrested two men aged 34 and 25 on Saturday in connection with a case involving illegal possession of drugs, firearms and explosives, after officers stopped a suspicious vehicle in Aglandjia. According ...

A British passenger was remanded in custody for three days on Saturday after customs officers at Larnaca airport seized a large quantity of duty-unpaid cigarettes from his luggage. The seizure ...

A 50-year-old man was remanded in custody for eight days by Limassol district court on Saturday in connection with the reported theft of €800,000 from a company in Limassol. The suspect ...

Police are investigating terrorism-related offences and participation in a criminal organisation in connection with the arrest of two men aged 32 and 38, police spokesman Vyron Vyronas said on Saturday. The two ...

A teacher accused of sexually abusing and harassing five underage students at the Hala Sultan theological college was remanded in prison on Friday for a period not exceeding two months ...

Five men pleaded not guilty at the Larnaca permanent criminal court on Friday to multiple charges related to violent incidents in the city on January 17. The defendants, aged 20, 26, 26, 32 and 48, face ...

Two men, aged 25 and 26, were arrested in Limassol on Friday after an anti-drug operation led to the seizure of almost three kilos of cannabis. The operation was carried out by ...

A 31-year-old man has been remanded for one day by the Famagusta district court in connection with an online fraud case involving more than €14,000 allegedly obtained through false representations. Police ...

A teacher at Hala Sultan theological college in Mia Milia was arrested on Thursday in the north after allegations emerged that he sexually harassed five underage students aged between 14 and 16. ...

The Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday the immediate release of an Iranian national who had spent approximately 24 years in Cyprus, ruling that his continued detention for deportation purposes had exceeded ...

A 24-year-old man was remanded in custody for six days on Tuesday in connection with the alleged abduction and robbery of a 69-year-old woman in a village in the Nicosia ...

A 35-year-old man, arrested on Monday for possession of drugs, was remanded in custody for three days on Tuesday. The Limassol district court heard that on Monday the police had ...

Police-chief Themistos Arnaoutis is among 15 officers that independent criminal investigators recommended for criminal prosecution on Tuesday in relation to alleged failures in the handling of domestic violence complaints before the 2019 ...

The court of appeal increased to 10 years the prison sentence imposed on a father convicted of sexually abusing his underage daughter, ruling on Tuesday that the original punishment failed to ...

A 42-year-old man who assaulted a state prosecutor inside the Limassol criminal court after being sentenced in a kidnapping case was handed an additional four-year prison term on Tuesday, with ...

A Turkish national accused of abducting his two-year-old son from Limassol and taking him to the north was remanded in custody on Tuesday by the Famagusta ‘district court’, while the ...