Crime

A 57-year-old Australian man has been charged with engaging in sexual intercourse with a child in an abandoned beach in Protaras following international police cooperation. The two are blood relatives ...

A 34-year-old man who shot and injured another young man in Paphos last month will answer to attempted murder charges on November 16, the criminal court decided on Thursday. Until then, ...

A 56-year-old man found guilty of assisting third country nationals to enter the Republic illegally was sentenced to 24 months in jail on Thursday. Famagusta district court also found the man ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas Police are certain that the image released of two men shows the murderers of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos, who was gunned down in Limassol earlier in ...

The District Court of Paphos imposed a 15-month prison sentence on a 41-year-old man found guilty of a string of burglaries and thefts committed in the district. According to the ...

A 35-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for a case of armed robbery under investigation, committed in Protaras. According to police statement, the man, a Paphos resident, was arrested in ...

Police in Limassol on Wednesday arrested a 37-year-old man for possession of over 6kg of cannabis. According to the police, members of an anti-drug patrol followed the man, who was ...

Nicosia police on Wednesday arrested a man suspected of scamming a woman out of almost 20,000 worth of jewellery and cash last week. The 55-year-old man is the second suspect arrested ...

Police on Wednesday published a photograph of two men suspected to be involved in the murder of 55-year-old Thanasis Kalogeropoulos who was gunned down in broad daylight in Limassol earlier ...

A 38-year-old man was handed a six-year jail sentence after being found guilty by Larnaca district court for drug trafficking. A police statement outlining the facts of the case said ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas Further measures will be taken by police, following two high-profile Cyprus gangland murders almost 36 hours apart, police said after a meeting on Wednesday. The ...

Police are investigating an attempted murder in Nicosia on Tuesday, after a man well known to authorities was shot in his home in Acropolis. According to police, Alexis Mavromichalis, aka ...

Two women suffered broken bones after jumping from an apartment balcony during a police drugs raid in Kyrenia on Monday night. Five women, aged between 23 and 27, were inside the apartment ...

The man gunned down and murdered in broad daylight in Limassol on Monday had been struck by 10 bullets a post mortem showed on Tuesday after police said they were worried ...

Paphos police dealt with thirty-two cases of family violence in October. According to Paphos CID chief Michalis Nikolaou, of the 32 cases, 13 were registered for trial before the Paphos District Court; ...

A 47-year-old Syrian national facing charges for threats during the Chlorakas fracas was cleared of all charges for a separate case of theft on Monday. During the hearing at Paphos ...

Taxpayers’ money is being squandered as police officers have become “full time drivers” transporting people to available holding cells across the island, the police branch of the Isotita trade union ...

Two men were arrested on Sunday in the village of Syrianochori after stealing 260 kilograms of oranges from an orange grove. The men, aged 47 and 45, were found to have been picking ...

A 61-year-old man was remanded in court on Sunday for five days over the attempted murder of a 36-year-old. Paphos district court issued the remand order after police said at 2...

Nicosia district court on Sunday remanded two people for five days over an attack against police officers in the capital’s old town. Officers were alerted of a fracas at ...

A 54-year-old woman was arrested after she was reported to have scammed a lady for almost €20,000 by claiming she was the Nicosia general hospital chief, police said on Sunday. Nicosia ...

A 68-year-old man suspected of possessing and distributing child pornography was arrested in Famagusta, police said on Sunday. Members of the cybercrime unit received information that a user on a ...

The justice ministry is increasingly concerned for the public’s health and safety amid increasing drug use trends, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Friday. Attending a workshop over illegal ...

The 500kg drug haul seized in a Larnaca warehouse is the largest quantity of drugs ever found in Cyprus, with a street value exceeding €1 million, police said on Friday. Speaking ...