Crime

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 ...

Police on Friday arrested a third person in connection with the drive-by shooting in Nicosia last week. The suspect is a 29-year-old man from Larnaca for which police secured a ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ and head of the north’s ‘parliamentary’ justice committee Oguzhan Hasipoglu made an extraordinary intervention to reporters on Friday regarding the trial of those held responsible for ...

Police on Friday were on the hunt for a 24-year-old man for breaking into a Paphos home and stealing. Another individual aged 33 was also arrested in connection with the same ...

Two men, aged 24 and 25, have been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison at Famagusta District Court for smuggling migrants to Cyprus. According to a police bulletin on Friday, the two ...

Youths throwing firecrackers near the primary school in Livadia village also threw stones at a fire engine called to intervene, police said on Friday. At around 9.30 on Thursday evening nearby ...

Police cautioned the public on Thursday to be wary of scams on WhatsApp, where individuals posing as police officers have been trying to extort bank and ID details from unsuspecting ...

Two men appeared in court on Wednesday accused of aiding and abetting the murder of 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city in December. Alav was found dead at ...

The Paphos district court issued a five-day detention order against a suspect wanted for an investigated case of extortion by false representation and illegal drugs possession, it was announced on ...

The Paphos district court imposed a five-month prison sentence on a 43-year-old man found guilty of domestic violence, it was announced on Tuesday. According to police, the 43-year-old, a permanent ...

A car set on fire in Limassol in the early hours of Tuesday was extinguished by neighbours who noticed the vehicle aflame. According to the police, the fire broke out ...

Police on Sunday were investigating an attempted arson attack against a Limassol company linked to a 51-year-old accountant. CCTV footage showed an unknown individual going to the block of apartments ...

Two people were caught in the act while stealing from a church donation box in Kato Pyrgos Tyllirias on Friday and were subsequently arrested. The village community leader Nikos Cleanthous ...

The Famagusta district court on Friday sentenced a 54-year-old man to nine months in prison after he was found guilty of a maritime accident that occurred in August 2017 off the ...

A car with tinted windows opened fire in broad daylight in Nicosia on Friday, close to the central prisons. Police were at the scene at the Ayios Andreas area in ...

A police operation on Thursday nabbed 13 persons illegally residing in Cyprus, while authorities were making arrangements for the arrestees’ deportation. In a statement, the police said their operation took place ...

A 33-year-old man was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the Paphos criminal court on Thursday for smuggling over 26 kilogrammes of cannabis into Cyprus. According to the case’s history, ...

The 58-year-old prison guard who was arrested in possession of drugs while driving to his shift was remanded in custody for a week on Thursday. The prison guard, who was ...

Police on Thursday were working in collaboration with the state veterinary services to establish the precise nature and extent of the offences relating to a case of meat smuggling for ...