#crime

Yiasser Arar, 40, told the criminal court on Tuesday that he took part in the murder plot against 34-year-old Demetris Andronikou as he owed a personal debt. Sentence will be passed ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for causing grievous bodily harm in an assault in October 2023 in Limassol. A photo and the details of the suspect were posted on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday called on the authorities to speed up their investigations into matters involving corruption and organised crime. Christodoulides held a meeting on the subject of corruption ...

Police are investigating attempted murder after a 22-year-old was heavily wounded in a stabbing at a Limassol bar. A 27-year-old, named by the police as Mehmet Nikola Mehmet, born on ...

Two men appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Thursday, accused of having attempted to steal a dairy farm near the village of Kythrea by pulling a gun on its ...

A 31-year-old man was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday for setting fire to the house he was living in on September 26 in Nicosia. Police said the man ...

A brawl in a Nicosia apartment led to the injury of a 31-year-old, who climbed off a third-floor balcony to avoid being arrested. At around 8.30pm on Wednesday, police were ...

A car bomb exploded at 3am on Thursday in Limassol. Police said the car was being used by a 78-year-old and was parked in Ayios Athanasios area. The blast was ...

Police seized 80kg of cannabis in Limassol and arrested one suspect. In a post on X, police said the drugs were found in the possession of a 28-year-old, during a ...

A man was arrested when large quantities of duty-free tobacco products and thousands of euros in cash were found after a tip-off on Monday in Agglisides in the Larnaca district. ...

People have been receiving fraudulent emails supposedly from the Cyprus police, notifying them that they are involved in various criminal activities. The emails are being sent from fake accounts, presenting ...

Norwegian police have issued an international search request for Rinson Jose, a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that exploded last week, ...

Limassol police arrested a 26-year-old after illegal tobacco products were found in his home. Police found a kilo of narghile tobacco, 27,760 cigarettes of various brands and 12kg and 250gr of ...

An 18-year-old has been banned from entering sports venues for six months after being found guilty of possessing a folding metal bat at a football match and has been ordered ...

A man was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for firing a shotgun into the air as part of his new year’s celebrations. He appeared in front ...

Police have called on the public to be extremely careful regarding a new type of online fraud, this time with emails aimed at extorting money from recipients. Recipients of such ...

Police have arrested a 40-year-old in Paphos for the illegal possession of drugs and carrying weapon. Paphos police stopped a car driven by the 40-year-old of Arab origin at 9pm ...

Three people arrested on Wednesday after police found over 2kg of cocaine in their car, were handed eight-day remand orders on Thursday by the Limassol district court. The three, aged 35, 33 ...

A 27-year-old was arrested on Wednesday in Paphos in connection with a case of impersonation. Police said that on Wednesday at 4am a woman of African origin presented a French ...

An 18-year-old was arrested on Tuesday for the possession and distribution of child pornography. Police began investigating the case after a message from Europol that an internet user had uploaded 17 ...

Larnaca’s criminal court sentenced a 30-year-old to 11 years in prison for illegally importing 15.6 kilos of cannabis. The court heard that the 30-year-old had been arrested on July 6 on arrival ...

Burglars on Tuesday got away with €820,000-worth of property from an apartment along the coast in Limassol. Police said a foreigner reported that around dawn on Tuesday burglars broke into ...

Authorities across the board were on the defensive on Friday over their handling of a 64-year-old man arrested for sexual crimes against minors. The teenage girls believed to be victims ...

A prisoner in the north sustained first-degree burns on his face and body after having boiling water with sugar in it poured on his face and body. The prisoner was ...