Crime

A woman was handed a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence on Thursday after being found guilty of driving the wrong way up a highway while drunk and killing an oncoming driver. The ...

The customs department on Friday announced it had seized more than 3,000 counterfeit products, including football shirts and other items, from three shops in Ayia Napa. The other items included bags, ...

Contraband cigarette tobacco and the vehicles used to transport it illegally from the north to the Republic have been seized in the last few days by the customs department, it ...

A 46-year-old man from the Famagusta district was arrested on Thursday night after having allegedly attacked someone with a knife inside a coffee shop. The police said a 41-year-old man ...

A Greek Cypriot was sentenced in the north on Thursday to 60 days in prison for attempting to help an accomplice cross to the Republic from the north with a fake ...

Police arrested a 32-year-old resident of Larnaca on Wednesday, under suspicion of burglary. A police statement said that the burglary case was reported to the police by a 65-year-old woman ...

Three men who had been found guilty on 17 charges each in relation to the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali and his chauffeur Murat Demirtas were all handed long ...

Paphos police arrested four people on Tuesday in possession of illegal drugs and driving under the influence. According to the police shortly before 7pm officers on patrol spotted a pedestrian ...

Police arrested three persons aged 27, 33 and 40 years old on Monday and Tuesday for an investigated case of car parts theft. According to the police, on Monday evening, a 69-year-old man ...

Three people were arrested after trying to escape police detention through a window, police said on Tuesday. The incident unfolded over the weekend in Nicosia. Three individuals, two aged 22 and ...

Three men were found guilty on Tuesday of 17 charges each in relation to the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali and his chauffeur Murat Demirtas in February 2022. Omer Tunc, ...

Larnaca Airport customs department on Tuesday announced the confiscation of a large volume of smuggled tobacco products, intended for the UK. The stash was intercepted on Friday when, when after ...

The mother of the infant who died at the Nicosia general hospital last week is being evaluated by psychiatric services on Tuesday. The evaluation of the 21-year-old woman by a ...

A total of three people were arrested for living in Cyprus illegally during police raids which took place between Friday and Sunday morning. The arrests were made as part of ...

Police fined a 50-year-old man with €1,000 for transporting cigarettes from the north, it emerged on Monday. The man was found on Sunday night in Kissonerga, Paphos. Police found 11 cigarette boxes ...

Far-right British fugitive Tommy Robinson is currently on holiday in Cyprus, staying at a holiday village near Cape Greco. Robinson, a former member of the fascist British National Party and ...

Police in Paphos over the weekend arrested of a 33-year-old man for threatening and assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. According ...

The Paphos district court on Saturday issued a five-day remand for a 45-year-old woman for a case of theft of thousands of euros worth from a department store in Paphos. ...

Police on Monday are treating a stabbing incident in Limassol overnight as attempted murder, after a 29-year-old man was seriously wounded with a knife. According to the police, the incident ...

Two men were remanded for eight-days by the Limassol District Court on Sunday in an ongoing drugs investigation. The two men, 31 and 26, were arrested on Saturday after police drug squad ...

Police arrested the mother, 21, of a 3-month-old baby that died in Nicosia General last week from malnourishment and neglect. The woman, who had been abroad, was arrested on Saturday night ...

Two more people, aged 16, have been arrested for stealing money from arcade machines in Protaras, bringing the number of people arrested for the same case to six, all aged between 15 ...

A saloon car was completely destroyed by fire on Friday evening in Nicosia. Police reported that the fire broke out at 8.30pm on Friday, while the car was parked in ...

A prisoner in the north sustained first-degree burns on his face and body after having boiling water with sugar in it poured on his face and body. The prisoner was ...