Crime

Police made multiple arrests across the country of people carrying firecrackers and other pyrotechnic paraphernalia on Easter Saturday. One 18-year-old man was arrested near the Ayia Marina church in Limassol ...

A house belonging to a 73-year-old man was set on fire on Saturday night as a group of up to 70 youths attacked police who had been called as a lambradjia ...

A police car was completely destroyed on Easter Saturday night in what Limassol police spokesman Lefteris Kyriakou called an “organised attack”. The car had been set on fire when police ...

Police and fire services were on high alert in Limassol on Saturday, after a number of tyres were set on fire on a main road. Officers believe two minors were ...

Four people in Limassol were remanded for seven days on Friday under suspicion of drug trafficking. The suspects included three men aged 21, 19, and 22, as well as a 20-year-old woman. According ...

Police in Nicosia arrested two men suspected of drug possession, it emerged on Friday. The two men, aged 22 and 62, were arrested as part of a drug raid on Thursday evening ...

By Robert Morgan A 24-year-old man was arrested in Larnaca early on Friday morning for illegal possession and transportation of dangerous goods and explosive materials, said Spyros Chrysostomou, representative of ...

A 55-year-old man in Paphos was fined thousands of euros for untaxed tobacco products, it emerged on Thursday. The man was fined €3,500 and after his car was stopped at around 4.30...

Police on Thursday arrested a 30-year-old man for physically assaulting a 46-year-old woman in Limassol. The incident took place on April 25, but the woman only reported it late on Wednesday. ...

An 83-year-old woman from Nicosia was scammed out of €650 by cold callers masquerading as doctors on Wednesday. The woman said she received a telephone call to her landline at about 4...

Four arrested for drugs Police on Monday arrested a total of four people for two cases of drugs possession in Nicosia and Limassol. According to the police, the first case ...

A prison guard was arrested on Monday after allegedly having set fire to a car in the early hours of Monday morning. The fire had broken out at around 4.20am ...

Police are tackling the attempted murder of a 34-year-old in Lakatamia as “a difficult and highly intricate matter”, according to spokesperson Christos Andreou. Demetris Andronicou, also known as Demetroui, was ...

By Robert Morgan Paphos police are investigating the stabbing of a 29-year-old man illegally living in the village of Argakas and a warrant for arrest was issued for the 33-year-old ...

A total of 60 people were involved in a fight in Astromeritis on Sunday night. The fight began at around 9.30pm and two people were injured as a result, a spokesperson ...

Police on Saturday announced a total of ten arrests in connection with an attempted murder which was carried out on Tuesday. Eight arrests were announced early on Saturday morning, while ...

A total of three cars were destroyed by an arson attack in the car park of an apartment building in the Limassol village of Trachoni on Friday night. Police believe ...

Two men were arrested in Limassol on Friday night after having been found to be in possession of a total of 80 grams of cannabis between them. The pair, aged 27 and 26 ...

The Larnaca criminal court on Friday sentenced a 29-year-old man to five years in prison today after finding him guilty of drug trafficking. A police statement said that “members of ...

An 82-year-old who was jailed for shooting a cable thief in March had an appeal for his sentence to be commuted to a suspended sentence rejected on Friday. During proceedings ...

Two Turkish Cypriot men were remanded for six days for a spate of muggings in Limassol, it emerged on Friday. The two men, 21, were arrested in Limassol after it emerged ...

Nicosia police are continuing investigations to identify the perpetrators of the attempted murder of a 34-year-old man, which took place on the Paleochori – Anthoupolis road, police spokesman Christos Andreou said ...

Police on Wednesday rearrested a 44-year-old man, who was already in custody, as a suspect in the arson of several cars located in a workshop in Nicosia, as well as ...

British bases police and customs officers, in cooperation with Cyprus police, made multiple arrests in a pre-Easter festivities clampdown, it was announced on Wednesday. “In two of the five planned ...