Crime

A 25-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and “causing concern”. Paphos police’s deputy chief of operations Michalis Nikolaou explained ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested in the Paphos village of Chlorakas on Wednesday evening after being found driving with crystal methamphetamines in his car, and then testing positive for it ...

A 63-year-old man is wanted by police in Paphos after allegedly swindling two people out of a combined total of €11,500. According to the Paphos police’s deputy chief of operations ...

The House human rights committee said on Monday expressed concerns over the government’s delays in creating a juvenile detainee centre. MPs were also worried over the way preparation and ...

Two Iranian nationals may face deportation after they were linked to a foiled terror attack against Israelis and Jewish people in Cyprus, police said on Monday. The two have been ...

Police on Sunday arrested two women, aged 42 and 27, to aid investigations into cases of burglaries at two old people’s homes. The reported incidents were brought to the attention of ...

A 41-year-old was arrested on Sunday after he was caught trying to steal over €100 worth of items from a store in Paphos. Deputy police chief of operations Michalis Nicolaou said ...

Israel helped Cyprus foil an Iranian-ordered attack against Israelis and Jews on the island, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday, as Cypriot authorities remained tight-lipped citing ...

Cyprus is treating the upcoming holiday period as ‘high-risk’ in light of the war raging in the Middle East, and upping security measures amid fears of a ‘lone wolf attack’, ...

A 15-year-old damaged at least two cars after he was found driving a stolen vehicle in Nicosia, police said on Saturday. Officers were looking for a vehicle reported stolen on ...

An official complaint has been filed to police on Friday by state health services organisation (Okypy), after a woman complained that a nurse had locked her husband in a hospital ...

There was yet another delay in the trial of Sefer Bugra Altundag on Friday, who stands accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur. The case had most ...

The perpetrator and the victim are both missing after a man was stabbed in Nicosia’s walled city in the early hours of Friday morning. Police were called after blood ...

Russian criminal Viktor Panyushin, who is wanted in his native country for crimes including kidnapping, severe beating, and illegal organisation of gambling activities, was declared as a persona non grata ...

Members of the sports’ ethics committee convened on Wednesday to review the current situation following the disclosure of red notice findings regarding match fixing. An announcement released by the committee ...

A man was allegedly locked in a hospital cupboard in Nicosia by a nurse this week for seven hours, reports said on Thursday, with the state health services organisation (Okypy) ...

Paphos police arrested a 67-year-old man wanted by authorities in Germany on fraud and embezzlement charges, authorities said on Thursday. The man was arrested as soon as he arrived in ...

A 29-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday night, suspected of throwing stones at the windows of the town’s courthouse, among other buildings. The man was apprehended at ...

A university lecturer in the north has appeared in court after allegedly posing as a doctor. The lecturer, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey, who works at the Cyprus ...

A 29-year-old woman was sentenced to two years in prison in the north on Wednesday for stealing 700TL (€22.41). The woman, named Kadriye Denise Surucu, had a previous criminal record, having ...

Members of the human trafficking police unit in collaboration with the labour ministry’s inspection unit are investigating a 40-year-old farm owner in the Nicosia district accused of illegally employing ...

Police located and arrested a 42-year-old man on Monday who was wanted for a case of grievous bodily harm. The man was taken into custody to be questioned for offenses ...

Police in Limassol on Monday arrested five persons for theft, conspiracy to commit a felony, and illegal stay in the Republic. According to the police, they were lead to the ...

Police in Limassol have arrested a 69-year-old man suspected of embezzling €10,000 from a 59-year-old, relating to a property sale fraud case. According to Limassol CID, last September an agreement was ...