Crime

A 56-year-old man was sentenced to 11 years in jail on Monday after having pled guilty to attempting to import 16 kilograms of cannabis into Cyprus via Larnaca airport. According to the ...

A 39-year-old man was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of child sexual abuse offences committed between 2019 and 2022 in Famagusta district. The court also issued ...

A 69-year-old man was arrested on Thursday after police discovered large quantities of tobacco products in his vehicle in the Larnaca district, police said on Friday. The customs department spotted ...

Extensive damages were caused to the car of a 50-year-old Larnaca man when it was set fire to outside his house. Examinations at the scene discovered a flammable substance, while ...

A 37-year-old man arrested in Larnaca late on Thursday was remanded in police custody for five days by Larnaca district court on Friday after 360 grams of crystal meth was found ...

Two men, aged 35 and 26, were arrested on Thursday afternoon in Limassol after eight kilos of cannabis were found in their possession, police said on Friday. Police watched the 35-year-old park ...

A 46-year-old man was handed an eight-day remand on Wednesday after stabbing a supermarket worker following a failed attempt to steal products from the shop. The police said that shortly ...

Sixty-five boxes of untaxed cigarettes, each containing 200 cigarettes, were seized from a 58-year-old Turkish Cypriot at Paphos airport on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. The cigarettes were found in his ...

A 30-year-old convict in the central prisons was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the murder of 49-year-old Limassol businessman Stavros Demosthenous last week. He has been held in the ...

Two men, aged 30 and 31, were remanded for eight days by the Larnaca district court on Tuesday after the seizure of crystal meth. The drug squad (Ykan) said the seizure followed ...

Four men have been arrested in connection with the murder of 49-year-old businessman Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol, as investigators piece together evidence linking a double-cabin vehicle to all three crime ...

Three men aged 58, 39 and 30 were on Monday remanded in police custody for eight days by the Limassol District Court in connection with the murder of 49-year-old businessman Stavros Demosthenous, who ...

Sixty five untaxed boxes of cigarettes, each with 200 cigarettes, were seized from a 48-year-old Turkish Cypriot woman at Larnaca airport on Sunday. The tobacco products, found in her luggage as ...

Three more arrested over shooting of businessman Three more arrests were made in connection with the shooting of 49-year-old businessman Stavros Demosthenous, bringing the total number of arrests to four, ...

A 48-year-old man was arrested in the Famagusta district on Sunday after police discovered 860 grams of cannabis and 270 grams of cocaine at his home during a coordinated operation by the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar was on Sunday reported to the police by the north’s supreme election council after allegedly breaking electoral law during a television appearance on Saturday ...

Five people were arrested for various offences during coordinated police operations in Larnaca on Saturday night and early Sunday, police said. The checks were carried out as part of ongoing ...

Police arrested a 19-year-old man in the early hours of Sunday after he was caught driving at 190km/h on the Limassol–Nicosia highway while under the influence of alcohol. ...

Police on Saturday night arrested a 44-year-old former footballer in connection with the murder of 49-year-old Stavros Demosthenous, which was committed on Friday morning in Limassol. The suspect was later ...

The appeals court ratified a district court ruling by which a minor is being held until his hearing on October 29 in relation with a case of arson and receiving stolen ...

A well-known Limassol businessman was shot on Friday morning and died on the motorway on the way to hospital. The man, identified as 49-year-old Stavros Demosthenous, was most well-known for ...

British bases police officers on Friday praised the quick thinking and bravery of a child for using the international hand signal for distress which led to their father being sentenced ...

A 34-year-old man was on Thursday remanded for eight days after allegedly firing shots into the air in an attempt to intimidate his former partner in a neighbourhood in the ...

A 17-year-old boy was arrested in Limassol on suspicion of burglary, driving a stolen car, and possession of drugs, but not before driving the stolen car into a house, the ...