Crime

Police in Limassol on Thursday night arrested a 23-year-old man for possession of various pyrotechnic paraphernalia. The man was found to have had two flares, four large nautical flares, and ...

Police in the Nicosia district on Thursday arrested a man and a woman over a string of knifepoint robberies at kiosks. A total of three kiosk heists were reported in ...

The man accused of setting fire to Paphos’ municipal Christmas tree will remain in custody pending his trial. The man, aged 39, appeared in court on Thursday to be told of ...

State officials blatantly looked the other way to allow a Limassol fish farm to operate illegally for 15 years, and it is only now being investigated for money laundering allegations, high-level ...

Police suspect arson as the cause of a car fire which took place in the Paphos village of Yeroskipou on Wednesday. The fire broke out at around 7:30pm in a ...

Two men, who had helped steer boats with irregular migrants last October, were sentenced to two and half years in prison for people smuggling, the Larnaca District Court ruled on ...

A 20-year-old man has been arrested to aid investigations into a case involving child pornography, police said on Wednesday. The investigation started following a tip received by the authorities indicating ...

Police in the Republic on Wednesday arrested three men for the kidnap of the two men who are suspected of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in northern Nicosia. The police announced ...

Police in Limassol have taken into custody two brothers after finding firecrackers and improvised explosive devices in a house in Ypsonas. The two, aged 24 and 29, were arrested late on Monday ...

Police on Wednesday arrested three men aged 37, 46 and 47 for an investigated case of abduction or kidnapping and intentional secret confinement. According to the police, the three suspects were arrested shortly ...

Police announced arrests on Wednesday in four cases of illegal employment and illegal stay in the districts of Nicosia, Larnaca, and Paphos. After conducting checks on Tuesday, the police made ...

Paphos police on Wednesday are looking for three people to facilitate investigations into two cases of theft. According to police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou, the first case involves a 26-year-old resident, ...

Two men were handed prison sentences for the possession of child pornography by the Larnaca criminal court on Tuesday. One was sentenced to eight years behind bars, and the other ...

Less than a quarter of gyms are operating legally, the Gym Owners Association (Pasigy) said on Tuesday. It lamented what it described as a “lack of effective control” of the ...

Two 32-year-old men from Cameroon have been arrested and remanded for three days in the north, as the main suspects in the murder of Ayca Alav two weeks ago, reports ...

A 52-year-old woman suspected of conning people out of over €400,000 by pretending to be a real estate agent was arrested and remanded for seven days, authorities said on Tuesday. Complaints ...

The two men who killed 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city are still on the run, police inspector Huseyin Zaifer told a court in the north on Monday. ...

The Larnaca criminal court sentenced a man to 15 years in prison on Monday, for having attempted to import a total of 36 kilogrammes of cannabis into Cyprus. The man, a 47-year-old ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in Paphos for an investigated case of forgery, circulation of a forged document and impersonation. According to police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou, on Saturday, shortly ...

Famagusta CID and drug squad (Ykan) on Sunday arrested a man for possession of a weapon and cannabis in Larnaca, while later in the day another man, who appears to ...

Police on Monday are investigating the origins of a defensive grenade, three pistols, and 11 bullets, which were discovered on Sunday in a field. According to police information, the weapon was ...

Culture of silence over rape, harassment and domestic violence by police officers MPs are sounding the alarm over what they describe is a boy’s club in the police force ...

Police in Limassol accused a man of attempting to supply just shy of two grammes of cannabis to a man who was being held in custody on Friday night. The ...

A 39-year-old man was arrested on Friday night on suspicion of having set fire to the town’s Christmas tree. The tree, which was located in the town’s central ...