#drugs

A cyclist was remanded for five days by the Limassol district court after police found drugs on him when he failed to stop for a check. At around 7.30pm, members ...

Paphos police on Sunday announced they had found a 36kg cannabis stash after carrying out an operation in collaboration with the drugs squad Ykan. The drugs were found in a ...

More than 80 kilogrammes of drugs were destroyed on Thursday by the police drug squad, authorities said. The quantity related to narcotics seized during the investigation of a total of 530 cases ...

About 230,000 doses of narcotics have been “withdrawn from society” after Thursday’s massive haul, with the two arrested not considered to be the masterminds, head of Ykan Christos Andreou said ...

Police on Friday evening arrested a man for possessing and supplying supply substances including cocaine, ecstasy and MDMA in the Limassol district. The 28-year-old was located and apprehended in connection ...

Two men aged 21 and one aged 45 have been arrested while over 1.5kg of cannabis was seized, police said on Sunday. While police were carrying out a search of the 45-year-old’...

Ryan Wedding, a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder suspected of becoming a cocaine smuggling kingpin responsible for multiple drug-related murders, has been arrested and brought to the US to face charges, ...

A 68-year-old resident of Larnaca district was arrested on Tuesday following a coordinated operation by the anti-corruption and anti-piracy units, according to a police statement. The arrest came after a ...

Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 78-year-old man and the poisoning of four others in Larnaca are ongoing with police on Wednesday saying that traces of liquid ...

A 25-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia as part of a police operation aimed at stamping out the dealing of drugs, the police said on Saturday. The man was arrested ...

A 40-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly trying to bring paper sheets soaked with a banned substance into central prisons, authorities said on Saturday. The justice ministry stated that ...

The appeals court on Tuesday increased the prison sentence of a man convicted of serious drug offences, from nine to 12 years. The appeal followed a request by the attorney general’...

A 27-year-old Greek national was sentenced on Monday to 13 years in prison by the Larnaca criminal court after admitting to transporting more than 23 kilograms of cannabis into Cyprus. The court ...

A 53-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison on Monday by the Paphos criminal court for smuggling and possessing cocaine. He was also found guilty of laundering money ...

Monks at Kykkos Monastery on Wednesday strongly denounced the spread of fake news circulating online, falsely claiming they discovered a “miracle drug” to cure serious and deadly illnesses, available for ...

Evidence related to 1,184 cases investigated in recent years by the district units of the Drug Law Enforcement Unit (Ykan) in Cyprus was destroyed this year, police said on Saturday. It ...

Venezuela is deploying weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, and is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a U.S. air or ground attack, ...

A 42-year-old man was arrested after being found to be in possession of almost a kilogram of cocaine and nine kilograms of cannabis, the police said on Saturday. The man ...

Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were arrested over suspected drug activity near a Paphos school, the police confirmed on Wednesday. The students, who attend a secondary school in the city, were ...

A six-day remand order was issued by the Larnaca district court against a 62-year-old man for illegal possession of 55 grammes of cocaine and possession of an offensive weapon, after causing ...

President Donald Trump confirmed that he authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in U.S. efforts to pressure President Nicolas Maduro’...

A total of 657 packages containing tetrahydrocannabinol, 11 packages containing cannabidiol, 24 hand-rolled cigarettes with plant material, and a solid block of an unknown substance weighing about 100g were seized during a coordinated ...

A 52‑year‑old Greek Cypriot man was sentenced to four years in prison by the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) court for possession with intent to supply class A and class ...

Three of the four people arrested on Sunday in connection with the seizure of over 100 kilogrammes of drugs hidden inside a container carrying toys were remanded in custody for eight ...