#arrests

A 39-year-old man from the hillside village of Arakapas was arrested on Thursday night after being found to be in possession of a parlour gun. The arrest was made after ...

Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat was released pending a trial on Friday, with his trial set to begin on February 29. In a hearing at the Nicosia District court, he was ...

Police in Nicosia on Wednesday evening arrested a man after he was found to be in possession of keys to four cars. The man, aged 33, then reportedly pointed out to ...

The Greek national who appeared in court in the north on Monday apologising for an anti-Turkish rant was arrested again on Wednesday after entering a Turkish military restricted area. The ...

Five men were on Saturday remanded for eight days for stealing transformers from the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) and causing damage of over €100,000 in the past three months. The suspects ...

Two people were arrested in Paphos on Thursday night after being found in possession of tools which could be used to facilitate a burglary and an electric scooter for which ...

Police on Thursday announced the arrest of a 22-year-old man in connection with the throwing of a firecracker at a footballer during a match on Tuesday. He was later remanded ...

Two people were arrested for breaking into a woman’s home in Paphos in the past month and stealing €2,000, police said on Wednesday. According to deputy police chief of operations ...

Two people were caught in the act while stealing from a church donation box in Kato Pyrgos Tyllirias on Friday and were subsequently arrested. The village community leader Nikos Cleanthous ...

Two people were arrested in Limassol on Sunday after a third person reported he had been attacked and racially abused while at work in a bakery. The two, aged 42 and 38, ...

Police arrested a 24-year-old woman arriving at Larnaca airport around 9kg of cannabis in her suitcases, an announcement said on Saturday. The woman arrived on Friday night, and during checks ...

A 22-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia on Wednesday after being found to be in unlawful possession of methamphetamines and a gun. Police discovered the drugs during a traffic stop, ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 35-year-old woman on Monday, who is suspected of having broken into and stolen clothes from a shop last month. According to Paphos police, after receiving ...

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 ...