Crime

A 17-year-old boy from Paphos was arrested on Thursday night following a series of violent incidents in the nearby village of Emba, which were apparently related to a traffic collision ...

Two people were arrested on Thursday evening during police checks ahead of a crunch basketball match between Anorthosis and Apoel, police said on Friday. Both arrestees were found to be ...

The creation, possession and distribution of AI-generated child pornography is now a criminal offence, carrying with it prison sentences of up to 15 years, under a law passed by parliament on ...

The police have issued a warning about yet another scam, this time about scammers posing as the Cyprus Post and calling on people to pay postal fees. The scammers inform ...

A 24-year-old man was stabbed multiple times at the construction site of Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s new official residence on Wednesday, the Turkish Cypriot police said. The police ...

A new list of harsher sentences for crimes against animals appeared in the north’s official gazette, paving the way for those found guilty of crimes against animals to receive ...

A 49-year-old man from Sweden was on Monday sentenced to 18 months in prison after having escaped from police custody at a private clinic in Larnaca in December. The man had ...

Two men, aged 36 and 24, were remanded for eight days byLarnaca district court on Monday after the discovery of two kilograms of cannabis. Police had earlier said that they had found ...

A 23-year-old man was arrested in Paphos after being found by police to have been attempting to take a bag full of firecrackers and smoke bombs into the town’s ...

A third person was arrested in connection with an incident in which a kiosk in Larnaca was robbed and its owner’s shirt was “grabbed” by one of the perpetrators, ...

A “low-powered explosive device” was placed outside a warehouse in the Larnaca suburb of Livadia and detonated in the early hours of Sunday morning, shattering a glass door, Larnaca police ...

The police are to “intensify” their work to clamp down on people driving over the speed limit from Monday. The force announced that the increased speed checks are to be “...

A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, among other accusations, after an incident in a block of flats which left a 27-year-old man requiring ...

The 29-year-old man who arrested on the British base of Dhekelia in connection with the confiscation of 11.5 kilograms of cannabis was on Saturday remanded in custody for two days. The ...

Part of the document giving consent to inspect a German real estate agent’s luggage had been forged, her defence lawyer told the court on Friday, accusing police of attempting ...

A 22-year-old man was arrested on Friday in Limassol in connection with the reported mugging of a 20-year-old man on an electric scooter on Monday. The victim reported to the ...

The planned court ruling over whether the remains of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was killed in 2005, would be returned to his family, was on Friday postponed. It had initially been ...

A 37-year-old who stopped for driving with false licence plates was also found to be staying illegally in Cyprus, police said on Friday. The police stopped the car during a ...

The police on Friday announced the arrest of a 25-year-old man who stands accused of having burgled a pharmacy and another shop in Nicosia. The man was arrested on Thursday ...

The police are investigating an incident in which a group of men robbed a kiosk in Larnaca on Thursday night, with the kiosk’s owner also reporting that one of ...

The police on Wednesday evening announced the arrest of three minors and one 18-year-old male in connection with the clashes between teenagers and the police which broke out in Limassol ...

A 20-year-old man was handed a 20-week suspended sentence by a court on the British bases after having been found guilty of stabbing his father in the leg. The man, ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Cyprus as part of an international police operation over the existence of a website on the dark web on which images of sexual abuse ...

Three teenagers were arrested on Tuesday after a 16-year-old reported he was attacked by 15 people the previous day outside a church in Pyrgos, Limassol. Two small groups, one from Parekklisia ...