#crime

A woman appeared in court in Famagusta on Friday accused of beating a 100-year-old resident of the care home at which she works. The incident came to light after the 100...

Striking truck drivers blocked key Mexican transport arteries on Thursday, jamming vital highways to protest lawlessness on the roads that has led to a rise in robberies and extortion. Traffic ...

There was an explosion at the entrance of a medical clinic in Aradippou in the early hours of Thursday morning. According to police, the explosion took place at around 1am. ...

A Greek Cypriot man appeared in court in the north on Tuesday, after having allegedly stolen a mobile phone. Police officer Cemal Aslan told the court the man on January 20 ...

A 49-year-old man was arrested on Saturday night in Nicosia after having stolen a garage door. The incident was uncovered when the garage door’s owner said he heard a “...

Police in Limassol announced on Friday that a case had been registered at Limassol District Court against four football hooligans, with their trials set to start in May. The four, ...

A 23-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Thursday night after being found in possession of three grams of cocaine and 80 grams of cannabis. Paphos police’s assistant operations director ...

A 28-year-old man from Larnaca crashed his car into a bus on Thursday night after being intercepted by the police’s drugs squad. The man, who was driving with three ...

Police on bicycles in Paphos responded to a total of 71 incidents during the month of January, the town’s police’s assistant operations chief Michalis Nikolaou said on Thursday. Speaking ...

Police in Karavas arrested a 50-year-old man on Wednesday evening after he set his own car on fire. The man, who was seven times over the legal alcohol limit to ...

Five hundred new police officers will be hired, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Tuesday, which will strengthen the force. The minister’s announcement came in the midst of criticism ...

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 ...

A 28-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Thursday night for drunkenly attacking a policeman. According to the Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou, police descended on Poseidon ...

In response to the surge of criminal activities throughout Cyprus in recent weeks, police chief Stelios Papatheodorou has proposed the deployment of armed patrols in the streets, it was announced ...

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 ...

The 49-year-old man who was the victim of an attempted murder in Aglandjia refused to give a statement to police on Tuesday, a day after an unknown person fired at ...

The man accused of setting fire to Paphos’ municipal Christmas tree will remain in custody pending his trial. The man, aged 39, appeared in court on Thursday to be told of ...

State officials blatantly looked the other way to allow a Limassol fish farm to operate illegally for 15 years, and it is only now being investigated for money laundering allegations, high-level ...

Police have arrested the partner of a 45-year-old woman who was discovered with a serious head injury on Wednesday afternoon in an apartment. According to the police, the 45-year-old woman, ...

Less than a quarter of gyms are operating legally, the Gym Owners Association (Pasigy) said on Tuesday. It lamented what it described as a “lack of effective control” of the ...

A 39-year-old man was arrested on Friday night on suspicion of having set fire to the town’s Christmas tree. The tree, which was located in the town’s central ...

Police on Friday arrested a third person in connection with the drive-by shooting in Nicosia last week. The suspect is a 29-year-old man from Larnaca for which police secured a ...

Police on Friday were on the hunt for a 24-year-old man for breaking into a Paphos home and stealing. Another individual aged 33 was also arrested in connection with the same ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday evening extended, on behalf of the Cypriot people, condolences to the families of the victims of a mass-shooting event in Prague. “Deeply shocked by ...