Crime

Cases of illegal drug importation are an upward trend, deputy drug squad chief, Stelios Sergides said on Tuesday. The police statement came following confiscation by officers of another stash of ...

A 53-year-old man on Monday pleaded not guilty to burglary charges brought against him for incidents in July 2022. On Monday, the man appeared in the Larnaca-Famagusta Criminal Court, where a ...

The trial of a 45-year-old man accused of premeditated murder in Paphos has been adjourned following a request from his defence lawyers. The trial is set to resume on September 20 ...

Police are investigating an alleged scam in which a woman from Nicosia lost over €77,000. The woman, aged 49, was allegedly persuaded by an unknown person via social media to invest money ...

The three defendants in the case of missing 31-year-old Angelos Perikleous – presumed dead – pled not guilty to all charges read out to them at Nicosia criminal court on Monday. The ...

Police have seized a total of 16 kilograms of cannabis which was found in the luggage of two men arriving at Paphos airport on Sunday. The men, aged 55 and 38, have been ...

Police have arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with an attempted kidnapping which took place in Ayia Napa on Sunday. The man is not accused of taking part in the ...

Over a thousand people gathered in Limassol to demonstrate their support to the family of Thanasis Nicolaou, a national guardsman that died in 2005 under suspicious circumstances. “We condemn all those ...

Police on Monday were investigating a case of fraud and money extortion of over 250 thousand euros. The victim, a 78-year-old Limassol resident, at the end of June received a bank ...

Famagusta district court on Sunday renewed a remand order for two people aged 66 and 65, over their connection with obtaining €96,000 from elderly people by pretending to be doctors. They were remanded ...

Six men, all taxi drivers, were arrested on Thursday outside Paphos airport after becoming involved in a physical altercation. The fight was a two-sided affair, with one group of three ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Friday cautioned the public to watch out for an alleged entity operating under the name “Universal Banks” and using the website: www.universalbanks....

Police are on Friday were investigating an incident of a Molotov cocktail being thrown outside a pizza shop in Limassol. According to police statement, the device was thrown outside the ...

Police on Friday said 3,000kg of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) were seized from a warehouse in Limassol. According to police spokesman Christos Andreou, 24 bottles of the controlled substance were found ...

Two men aged 22 and 30 pled not guilty on Thursday over the beating of a Turkish Cypriot woman in Ayia Napa last month. During the hearing, the defence requested to review ...

A 22-year-old man has been remanded in custody for one day after attempting to leave Paphos airport on a forged Danish passport on Thursday morning. According to police, the man ...

Paphos police on were on Thursday investigating a case of car arson in the district. Officers at Stroumbi police station were notified at noon on Wednesday, that a fire had ...

Police on Thursday arrested a 29-year-old woman for assault, disturbance, and possession of illegal drugs. According to the police, shortly after midnight it was reported that a woman outside a ...

Police on Wednesday arrested a 26-year-old man for an investigated case of a attack against another another 26-year-old. The incident happened on Sunday when the injured man suffering from a ...

Paphos police are investigating a case of burglary and theft at a Polis Chrysochous coffee shop, for with a 27-year-old man is wanted. According to the head of CID Michalis ...

Police in Paphos on Tuesday arrested a 41-year-old man for an investigated case of theft from a vehicle. According to the CID spokesman, Michalis Nikolaou, on Monday a complaint was ...

Limassol police on Wednesday announced the seizure of over 340 rounds of ammunition, a large amount of cash and a quantity of cocaine, from the residence of a 49-year-old man, who ...

The trial of a man accused of killing 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot Zehie Helin Reessur in the north in January has been postponed again, this time until July 11. The trial of ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 38-year-old man on Monday for intoxication and disorderly conduct and alarming drivers. According to the police, the inebriated man was harassing passing drivers on Andreou ...