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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 ...

A police officer was critically injured in a stabbing attack in Paris’ Champs Elysees shopping district on Thursday after a security guard at a boutique called police after spotting a ...

A woman appeared in court in the north on Friday, accused of having forged a rabies certificate to import two cats from overseas. A police representative in court said the ...

A 34-year-old who shot a man with a hunting rifle in Psathi village was sentenced to four years in jail at Paphos criminal court on Wednesday. Though he initially faced ...

Cybercrime “knows no borders”, bicommunal technical committee on crime Greek Cypriot co-chairman Andreas Kapardis said on Wednesday. Speaking at a committee meeting, he said the island’s two sides should “...

Four people appeared in court in the north on Friday, accused of having attempted to coordinate a crossing to the Republic using counterfeit German identity cards. Two of the detainees, ...

Measures taken to combat crime and ensure the public’s’ safety are constantly evaluated for their effectiveness, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Sunday. “Measures are taken constantly, which are ...

A 16-year-old child was arrested on Thursday evening in connection with a string of break-ins, thefts, car thefts, and cases of vandalism which have taken place in Nicosia in recent ...

Police arrested a third man in connection with the torching of a police car in the early hours of Thursday morning. The man arrested is 22 years old and is also ...

A total of 30 kilograms of smuggled lamb meat was seized at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point by Turkish Cypriot police on Tuesday. They explained on Wednesday that they had pulled ...

A gun and ten kilogrammes of cannabis stored in a plastic olive jar were found on Wednesday at a 34-year-old’s apartment in Paphos. The man was arrested during the ...

An 82-year-old who was jailed for shooting a cable thief in March had an appeal for his sentence to be commuted to a suspended sentence rejected on Friday. During proceedings ...

A 19-year-old man from Nicosia was arrested on Saturday night after pulling a fake gun on a woman who is believed to have given him the gun. Police received a ...

A 61-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Saturday after harassing a 38-year-old man with racist and threatening content on the internet. The man arrested had allegedly posted a photo ...

A 35-year-old man was arrested on Saturday night, accused of stealing an electricity transformer from a facility belonging to the electricity authority (EAC) in Larnaca. The transformer was stolen in ...

A policeman was run over in Limassol on Monday. The policeman, who was on a bicycle, had attempted to pull a car over after a check found that it did ...