Crime

Three men denied all charges on Tuesday after they were arrested for possession of explosive material: about 96,000 firecrackers. Paphos criminal court was told that the defendants – aged 24, 31 and 34 – were found ...

A 31-year-old man was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Tuesday for the attempted murder of a 42-year-old last year, where a six-year-old boy was also injured by the gunfire. ...

A 34-year-old man was arrested on Monday in Limassol as part of a child pornography investigation, police said. Investigations began after a tip-off from Europol that detailed a social media ...

A 28-year-old received a ten-year prison sentence at Larnaca criminal court on Monday after being found guilty of being in possession of 16 kilos of cannabis. The case emerged after the ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 20-year-old individual on Sunday in connection with an ongoing investigation involving a hotel room burglary and theft. According to Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, the ...

A person suffered a minor injury from a shotgun blast in Nicosia, police said on Sunday. According to police, three relatives in Lakatamia were arguing when one of them fired ...

Police on Sunday said they are investigating the assault of an Israeli man who was putting up posters of children kidnapped by Hamas in Larnaca. The man, together with two ...

Two men, aged 34 and 35, arrested with nine kilos of illegal drugs in Limassol earlier this month, have been remanded for an additional four days on Sunday. The pair reappeared in ...

A 34-year-old was remanded for three days by the Limassol district court on Saturday on suspicion of attempting to steal dozens of aluminium blinds. According to police, the man was ...

Four people were arrested on Saturday and remanded for six days, following an explosion near the Israeli embassy early in the morning, police said. The explosion occurred at 1.37am near ...

Paphos district court issued a one-day detention order on Thursday against a person for an alleged impersonation case at Paphos airport. According to the police, on October 19 at 4.40pm a ...

Three of the suspects in the north’s ongoing “anti-prostitution operation” reappeared in court on Friday, with one released on bail and the other remanded in custody. One of the ...

Police are investigating claims that a 17-year-old student was abducted and sexually abused by a 23-year-old former school security guard, it emerged on Thursday. The incident occurred earlier this week, ...

Police are on alert after initial reports pointed to an apparent attack on Wednesday night against a mobile traffic camera van, as authorities are concerned over a pattern of the ...

Police on Thursday are investigating the mugging and injury of a delivery driver in Limassol overnight. Police reported that the incident occurred shortly after midnight when the 28-year-old delivery driver, ...

Police in Wednesday night arrested a 38-year-old woman in Limassol for stealing electricity wires. According to Limassol CID following a tip off from members of the public, officers went to ...

Police in Paphos arrested two teenagers on Wednesday after a school fight led to two people being taken to the accident and emergency department on Tuesday. The arrested pair are ...

The House legal committee on Wednesday requested a review of the European arrest warrant mechanism. Committee members said the review should be made with the aim of preserving the rule ...

A motorised anti-poaching unit on Monday arrested a truck driver caught transporting smuggled petrol from the north. According to the police, the driver was stopped for inspection in the afternoon ...

A man who travelled from the Republic to the north and then to Turkey using a counterfeit British passport was sentenced to a year in prison in the north on ...

Paphos court is to announce sentence against the 47-year-old Syrian man who threatened to “turn Paphos upside down” in relation to the Chlorakas incidents during the summer on October 30. The 47...

A seven-member advisory committee on preventing violence at sporting events was appointed by Justice Minister Anna Procopiou-Koukkidi on Monday. She explained that the seven members are highly qualified and have ...

Limassol police are investigating a fraud case after a 39-year-old man reported that he was scammed out of €9,500. The police on Monday explained that the incident unfolded after the complainant ...

Five people have been arrested in the north as part of a “prostitution operation” conducted by Turkish Cypriot police. Police found three women, all citizens of Nigeria, in an apartment ...