Crime

Around 30kg of illegal drugs were found at an address in Trachoni leading to the arrest of seven people, British bases police said on Friday. The operation was carried out ...

A 36-year-old man was sentenced to 22 months in prison in Famagusta on Thursday for “assisting the illegal entry of persons” into Cyprus. In addition to the first charge, he was ...

British base police found an improvised explosive device during a search of residential properties in the village of Trachoni in the Akrotiri base area. Bomb defusal experts were called to ...

Three kilograms of cannabis were found inside cereal boxes by police at Larnaca airport, while police in Paphos arrested a man who attempted to take receipt of the package. According ...

A case of assault and theft is being investigated by Paphos police, following the mugging of a 65-year-old woman in Chlorakas in the early hours of Thursday. The Cyprus News ...

The trial of Sefer Bugra Altundag, who stands accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur in January, began in Trikomo on Wednesday. The trial had been adjourned ...

Police in Paphos have arrested two men on suspicion of theft after the victim pursued his case and located his stolen property. According to police, the case began with a ...

A 25-year-old man was remanded in custody for two days on Wednesday in connection with the stabbing of another man of the same age in Nicosia in June. Meanwhile, a 41...

Police on Wednesday carried out busts against a “criminal organisation involved in the smuggling of irregular migrants to Cyprus”, with five arrests made. The move came as President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Paphos police have arrested and are detaining a 48-year-old man accused of having sexually harassed a minor. According to police, the suspect is a tourist who was staying in the ...

Paphos police on Monday arrested a 53-year-old woman suspected of extortion. According to Paphos CID head, Michalis Nikolaou, police at Larnaca airport stopped the woman during her attempt to depart, ...

Police in Ayia Napa on Monday arrested two women, aged 20, theft, disturbing the peace, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. According to police statement, a shop owner spotted one ...

Four people have been arrested and charged in the north after being found selling weapons to a wanted person in the Republic. In addition, the suspects attempted to convert counterfeit €1,300 ...

It is believed that the hunter who was found dead on Sunday afternoon “died of natural causes”, according to the police. An investigation is underway, with police currently saying it ...

The number of domestic violence reports in Cyprus has soared in recent years, with a 319 per cent increase in reports seen since 2018. In 2022, the number of domestic violence reports reached 3,082, ...

A 38-year-old man from Limassol on Saturday reported the theft of €6,500 in cash from his car, pointing the finger at his 24-year-old girlfriend. According to his recollection of events, the ...

The two men accused of killing British Turkish Cypriot Huseyin Mavideniz were on Saturday imprisoned for a maximum period of three months pending a trial. Mehmet Yazici and Dogu Omer ...

Almost 1,000 people were booked last week for speeding as part of a police operation to clampdown on bad driving. A police bulletin on Friday said the campaign between August 7 -13 ...

A fire that broke out on Thursday afternoon in a building next to at an paint factory in the area of ​​Pera Chorio Nisou in the Nicosia district was due ...

Police in Nicosia on Thursday arrested a 29-year-old man after catching him red-handed in possession of almost 5kg of cannabis. According to a statement, officers of the Drug Squad flagged ...

The four defendants in the ‘golden passports’ scandal exposed by Al Jazeera in October 2020, and a subsequent independent investigation, will appear again before the Nicosia court on September 12 after the ...

Human trafficker arrests are increasing in Cyprus, but the sentences imposed by the courts are very low, state broadcaster Cybc reported on Wednesday. As reported, there were three times as ...

Two people have been remanded in police custody after they are believed to have imported drugs to the island via the postal service. They were remanded for eight days by ...

Two people aged 33 and 46 have been arrested on suspicion of stealing money from monasteries in the government-controlled area of Famagusta, police said on Tuesday. A 22-year-old man has also been ...