Crime

A man was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for firing a shotgun into the air as part of his new year’s celebrations. He appeared in front ...

Paphos police arrested a 38-year-old man for a case of theft and illegal drugs. According to the police, officers on crime patrol intercepted the man on foot around 7.30pm on ...

A passenger was arrested at Paphos airport after traces of cannabis were found in a hand-rolled cigarette in his possession over the weekend. According to the police, the 50-year-old outbound ...

Police are investigating a burglary in Larnaca jewellery shop, where items worth €15,000 were taken, it emerged on Sunday. According to police, the burglary took place early Saturday morning, when masked ...

Two people were arrested in for throwing flares before the Anorthosis-Omonia football match, police said on Sunday. The match, held on Saturday night, was at the Antonis Papadopoulos stadium in ...

A mob of 10 people reportedly attacked three men who were exiting a mosque in Paphos on September 6, with one man remanded in custody on Saturday. The three men, a father ...

A firecracker exploded outside a residential garage in Limassol in the early hours of Saturday morning. The explosion caused no damage, and the fire was extinguished by the garage’s ...

Police have confiscated 450 pairs of sports shoes from the residence of a 31-year-old in Larnaca on the grounds of infringement of intellectual property rights, it announced on Friday. A search ...

Incidents of violence in and around football stadiums and how to deal with them will be discussed on Friday at a meeting of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA). Meanwhile, police ...

A 25-year-old woman has been remanded in custody for three days after allegedly robbing and running down an 89-year-old man in Oroklini, Larnaca. The incident took place on Thursday afternoon. ...

Students at the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou on Thursday denied any links to a student recruitment agency which had been receiving thousands of euros ...

A 23-year-old Italian national was arrested on Thursday at Larnaca airport after customs officials found over 26 kilogrammes of cannabis in his luggage. According to the customs department, officers conducted a ...

A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday after having been convicted of robbing a simit shop in northern Nicosia. Jude Tutku Candas said the boy ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday after having unsuccessfully attempted to burgle a house in Limassol. The house’s 37-year-old owner said he had heard his doorbell ring twice ...

A 29-year-old man from Paphos was arrested after being found to be in possession of a “small amount” of methamphetamine and a “small amount” of cannabis, Paphos police’s deputy ...

Three further arrests were made on on Wednesday in connection with violent episodes which broke out at the abandoned Limassol derby between Ael and Apollon on Sunday. The first two, ...

A 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having stolen two lorries, the police announced on Wednesday. He was arrested on Tuesday after investigations into the theft and “malicious damage” ...

A Greek doctor who lives in Cyprus was arrested in his native country, accused of playing a “leading role” in a prescription forgery ring. The man had been assigned to ...

The 40-year-old driver of a vehicle which collided with a car driven by a Greek Cypriot man in the north and killed him appeared in court in Morphou on Tuesday. ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after having reportedly drunkenly assaulted a female flight attendant on a flight bound for Cyprus. The aircraft had departed the Turkish Aegean city ...

A 42-year-old man was arrested early Tuesday morning in Paphos after a police chase, during which authorities found stolen property valued at €3,510 in his possession, according to Paphos police spokesperson ...

Paphos police arrested two people, aged 19 and 20, as part of an investigation into illegal possession of property and possession of offensive weapons. According to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis Nicolaou, at ...

A 30-year-old Paphos man has been arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation into the theft of electricity, negligent and reckless acts, illegal entry into a property, and failure to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) should take responsibility over the violence which unfolded ahead of an Ael-Apollon match and not try to hide behind ...