#drugs

Despite a drop in usage across the board, the drugs market showed durability and adaptability during last year’s lockdown, with dealers finding new ways and tricks to supply their ...

A surge in meth use over the past five years has caused alarm, with an official telling the Cyprus Mail that the problem is getting worse each year. Ykan (drug ...

The Supreme Court has upheld an eight-year jail sentence handed down to a defendant found guilty of possessing nearly 1 kilo of cocaine with intent to supply, the Cyprus News Agency ...

The customs department seized over nine kilos of cannabis and confiscated around 67,000 cigarettes across Cyprus in May. On top of that, it also seized 893 cigars, almost 29 kilos of loose tobacco, 8,690 ...

Police have arrested a 27-year-old man who injured a policeman when fleeing a police check, having first thrown out eight pouches containing five grams of cannabis out of the window ...

The British bases on Wednesday did not confirm or deny reports from the UK that ten of its soldiers had tested positive for cocaine. Ten SBA personnel who allegedly failed ...

The 45-year-old father of a five-year-old boy who tested positive for cocaine last week in Limassol has been arrested, police told the Cyprus Mail. Police also issued an arrest warrant ...

A 40-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman were remanded on Monday until June 17, when they will appear in court in connection with the death of a Bulgarian national who was ...

The Limassol district court on Thursday issued an eight-day remand against two men, one aged 29 and the other, his stepfather, aged 41, who were arrested on Wednesday after they were allegedly ...

Cocaine, amphetamines, and ecstasy did not appear to be the drugs of choice among residents of Nicosia and Limassol, according to a study of urban wastewater conducted in April 2020, when ...

Paphos police caught two people driving under the influence of drugs, one on Tuesday evening and the other one later at night. The first, a 23-year-old man, was stopped by ...

Police seized 32 kilos of cannabis in Nicosia and Larnaca and detained two suspects in two separate cases, officials said on Tuesday. Police and customs officers found 27 kilos of the drug ...

A 33-year-old man has been arrested at Larnaca airport in connection with the import of 27kg of cannabis, police said on Tuesday. Drug squad spokesman Stelios Sergides told CNA that ...

Last year’s total lockdown between mid-March and the end of May led to drug-related cases falling by about a third, while drug use amongst youngsters is on the rise, ...

Police on Wednesday published the name and photograph of a 49-year-old Limassol man wanted in connection with a quantity of drugs found at his home. Police said an arrest warrant ...

The arrest of three men on Saturday in connection with a find of 1kg of cannabis in a car in Larnaca, has resulted in a huge haul of almost 19kg ...

Two people, both aged 21, were remanded for eight days by Larnaca District Court on Saturday after police said they seized around 1.2 kilos of cannabis following an operation in Larnaca on ...

Limassol district court on Tuesday remanded a 19-year-old man for seven days on suspicion of illegal drug possession with intent to sell. According to the police, the man was arrested ...

Limassol district court remanded a 44-year-old father for four days on Saturday for giving drugs to his 11-year-old son. The man was arrested following a visit by the social welfare ...

Larnaca district court on Friday sentenced a 40-year-old man to 14 months in jail for cultivating cannabis. The man, who is from Limassol, was arrested on January 15 after the drug squad ...

A 34-year-old man, a resident of Limassol, was remanded by the Larnaca court on Sunday after being found with one kilo of cannabis in his car, police said. According to ...

A 27-year-old man already in police custody has been rearrested as a suspect in the case involving moving cannabis with a drone last month, Nicosia police said on Saturday. A ...

Two men and a woman in Nicosia were remanded in police custody for six days on Saturday in connection with possession of 1.5 kilos of cocaine and 625 grammes of crystal meth. ...

A 40-year-old man from Laranca was arrested for illegal cannabis cultivation, police said on Saturday. After receiving a tip off, the drug squad checked the house of the suspect in ...