#arrests

A total of 17 people who were staying in Cyprus illegally were arrested on Sunday, police said. The arrests were made in the Larnaca district. Police say procedures to repatriate all 17 ...

A 16-year-old was arrested in Nicosia on Sunday, suspected of stealing a car and committing numerous traffic offences. Police received a call at around 6am from a member of the ...

Police in Paphos arrested two minors who were riding motorcycles on Saturday. Paphos police chief Michalis Nikolaou said the arrests were made with the aim of “combatting juvenile delinquency”. The ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 29-year-old man for an investigated case of malicious damage to government offices committed over the past few days in the town. He was later remanded ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday after attempting to smuggle two people to the Republic. He had been arrested on Tuesday while driving between Nicosia and ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested in Famagusta on Sunday on suspicion of having stolen a gun and cartridges. Police received a complaint at around 3pm on Sunday from a man ...

A 33-year-old woman was arrested in connection with an armed robbery at Protaras kiosk at the end of October, police said on Tuesday. The woman, who was arrested on Monday, ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Tom Cleaver Police believe the 22-year-old arrested in the early hours of Friday morning in relation with the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos helped organise the assassination ...

Police on Saturday arrested two men as part of an ongoing investigation over the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos, who was shot in Limassol earlier this week. The suspects are aged 41 ...

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 ...

A 61-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Saturday after having stabbed a man above the right buttock. He was apprehended at around 10am in the Coral Bay area. The ...

A 34-year-old was remanded for three days by the Limassol district court on Saturday on suspicion of attempting to steal dozens of aluminium blinds. According to police, the man was ...

Five people have been arrested in the north as part of a “prostitution operation” conducted by Turkish Cypriot police. Police found three women, all citizens of Nigeria, in an apartment ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday denied commenting on the matter of the Russian journalist sent back to Moscow, following his detainment in Nicosia a few days ago. The journalist’s ...

A 68-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after driving his car the wrong way up the highway between Ayia Napa and Pyla. Police were notified at around 9:40pm of the ...

Police arrested a 56-year-old for smuggling cigarettes from the north and fined him over €2,000, customs said on Thursday. According to police, the man was found during an operation carried out ...

Paphos traffic police on patrol on Thursday arrested a 42-year-old woman for drink driving, assault of a police officer and public disturbance. According to police, officers stopped the woman for ...

Police arrested a 24-year-old man early on Tuesday to facilitate investigation into a case of robbery and illegal possession of property, committed in Larnaca. According police statement, a 21-year-old man ...

Police on Sunday arrested a 46-year-old woman for an investigated case of theft from a supermarket. According the police, the case concerns a theft from a Kato Paphos supermarket last ...

Two men have been released on bail after being found in the buffer zone attempting to smuggle meat to the north. The pair will be tried in a Turkish military ...

Thirteen people arrested during racist riots in Limassol last week are appearing in criminal court in October, the Limassol District Court decided on Wednesday, after they filed the case directly ...

Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz has been conditionally released from custody in Cyprus and is to reappear in court on Sept. 14, a Cypriot police official said on Wednesday. Steinmetz was ...

A man, named as 39-year-old Murat Serifoglu, was remanded in custody for two days in the north on Wednesday in connection with a police investigation into an explosion which occurred ...

A 49-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday morning after allegedly stabbing another woman of the same age on a street in Limassol on Tuesday night. She was taken into custody ...