Crime

The Famagusta criminal court on Wednesday sentenced a 35-year-old man to five years in jail after finding him guilty of robbing a kiosk in Protaras using a fake gun. According ...

Police on bicycles in Paphos responded to a total of 71 incidents during the month of January, the town’s police’s assistant operations chief Michalis Nikolaou said on Thursday. Speaking ...

Police in Nicosia on Wednesday evening arrested a man after he was found to be in possession of keys to four cars. The man, aged 33, then reportedly pointed out to ...

Limassol police arrested a 26-year-old man in relation to the incidents that took place at during the Ael-Apollon match last Wednesday. The latest bout of hooliganism saw flares thrown into ...

A 52-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in relation to a case of illegal acquisition, possession, access and distribution of child pornography currently under investigation. According to a police report, ...

Fifteen arrests were made in Cyprus, Latvia and Portugal, as part of a recent Europol operation to dismantle a ring of sham marriages, headquartered in Cyprus. Four of those arrested ...

Defendants in the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos requested to be tried at the Nicosia Criminal Court instead of Limassol, only to have their request denied by the courts, it was ...

Police arrested two men, 20 and 28, suspects in a drug bust at Paphos airport, where police found 33 kg of cannabis in their suitcases. The Ykan drug squad worked together with customs ...

Police on Tuesday secured testimony against a 39-year-old man for the crime of receiving stolen property. According to police, during a coordinated operation by CID, the car driven by the 39...

Even though more counterfeit banknotes were removed from circulation in 2023 than in 2022, the overall rate has remained relatively small, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) said on Tuesday. In its ...

A driver charged with causing a fatal accident has had his prison sentence increased to three years following a decision of the court of appeals made public on Tuesday. The ...

Police recorded over a thousand violations over the weekend, authorities said on Monday commenting on their beefed-up operations. Police carried out 2,103 checks on persons and 2,091 checks on vehicles and 310 checks ...

The Paphos district court on Sunday issued five-day remands against two 27-year-old men after a string of nighttime break-ins, thefts and malicious damage. According to police, on Saturday at 9.30pm ...

Paphos police on Sunday arrested a 29-year-old man for an investigated case of theft from a residence. According to the police, a 46-year-old woman on Saturday woman reported the theft ...

An 8-year-old boy was hit by a car on a central avenue in Nicosia on Saturday, police said in an apparent hit and run. The boy was walking on Spyros ...

Friday’s proceedings of the inquest looking into the death of National Guard officer Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa in 2005, saw forensic pathologist ...

The Larnaca criminal court imposed a four-year prison sentence on a 31-year-old man on Friday after finding him guilty of illegal drug possession with the intent to supply to others. ...

A doctor, who was found guilty of indecent acts, will have to now appear in front of a disciplinary board of the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA), which could strip him ...

A burglary suspect who removed loose glass bricks to get out of a police detention cell in Lakatamia in Nicosia on Thursday night was named on Friday by police who ...

Authorities on Thursday evening were reportedly hunting for a man who escaped police custody at a detention centre in Nicosia. According to Sigma, the man escaped from the Lakatamia police ...

A 34-year-old suspect, accused of attempted murder in Paphos, will remain in custody until the next trial on February 19, as decided by the court on Thursday. The court’s decision ...

The Greek national who appeared in court in the north on Monday apologising for an anti-Turkish rant was arrested again on Wednesday after entering a Turkish military restricted area. The ...

The five-year prison sentence imposed on a 46-year-old man found guilty of illegal trafficking of migrants was the strictest ever imposed, according to a statement released on Thursday by the ...

A 12-year-old from Paphos was injured on Thursday after driving a car into a ditch and then a tree, after which the car ended up on its roof. Paphos police’...