Famagusta police busted an apparent drug production operation and arrested two men, aged 31 and 63, in the case which also involves illegal entry into the country.
Ykan (drug squad) officers entered ...
The Limassol criminal court on Friday imposed a prison sentence of 18 years on two persons in connection with a case of importing and possessing cannabis, weighing 72 kg, for the purposes ...
A 27-year-old Paphos resident has been arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, police said.
The man was arrested in the early hours of Monday after testing ...
Police have seized four kilos of cannabis from a motorist they stopped during a traffic stop on Saturday evening, they said.
Around 6.45pm, drugs-squad officers and traffic police on patrol ...
Two men aged 24 and 40 were jailed for five and four years respectively on Thursday after being found guilty on drug charges by Limassol criminal court.
The case follows a drug ...
Police on Tuesday seized 17.7 kilos of cocaine and made two arrests in a drug bust carried out in cooperation with Greece’s police (Elas), Sovereign Base Area (SBA) police and ...
A 46-year-old man who was arrested on Monday in Spain, in connection with case of trafficking of 132kg of cannabis, was remanded in custody for four days by Limassol District ...
Drug abuse and addiction are high on the government’s list of priorities said Deputy Minister of Social Welfare Anastasia Anthousi, following Monday’s signing of a memorandum of cooperation ...
Central prisons director Anna Aristotelous and the unit’s senior officer Athina Demetriou have asked to be transferred from their positions – a day after the deputy attorney general announced an ...
Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced two men aged 27 and 23 to four and a half years in jail after finding them guilty of illegal possession of drugs, illegal possession and ...
A hefty jail sentence of 11 years was handed down by the Larnaca criminal court on Thursday against a 34-year-old man found guilty of possessing 3.685kg of cocaine with intent to ...
Three men were on Tuesday remanded in police custody for eight days after 13.5kg of cannabis was found in two packages that arrived at Larnaca airport.
Members of the drug ...
Three people, a 45-year-old man and two women, aged 32 and 35, were remanded in police custody for seven days on Friday by the Larnaca District court following their arrest for alleged ...
Some nine per cent of young people aged 14 to 18 use cannabis, and one in five of these do so daily, the House legal affairs committee heard on Wednesday.
The figures ...
Limassol police are investigating after finding more than two kilos of methamphetamine buried in an open space in a village in the district.
Police said they found 2.18kg of the ...
Illicit drug sales are increasingly being conducted online, in part because of the pandemic, a senior police officer said on Thursday.
Speaking at a press conference ahead of International Day ...
Police on Saturday said they had arrested three people for alleged drug possession and suspected intent to distribute.
On Friday afternoon, members of the drug force (Ykan) intercepted a vehicle ...
The Czech police seized a large shipment of cocaine hidden among bananas delivered to several supermarkets, the police and local media said on Friday.
“Supermarket workers found moulded cocaine cubes ...
Continuing its zero tolerance policy towards drug use, the British Bases police have arrested 31 people for possession of drugs, it said on Friday.
The arrests were made in the villages ...
Nicosia anti-narcotics police are investigating two cases of illegal importation of drugs, anabolic substances and pharmaceuticals through the post office, police said on Monday.
The first involves the import of ...
A 56-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Saturday after being arrested on suspicion of smuggling 6.5 kilos of cocaine into the country.
The drugs were found on Tuesday in ...
Cocaine weighing 6.5 kilos was found by the police drug squad (Ykan) in Limassol on Friday as part of a large-scale operation which is currently underway.
A police statement also said ...
A 35-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Friday after he tried to pick up a post office parcel with illegal drugs in Larnaca.
The suspect was arrested on ...
By Andrea Charalambous
A 20-year-old man was remanded for six days by Paphos district court on Tuesday in connection with forged prescriptions.
He was the front seat passenger in a ...