Crime

The supreme court unanimously approved the attorney-general’s appeal over the 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier ...

Two students at a high school in Larnaca were expelled after a fight that saw one of them threaten the other with a knife. The incident occurred on Friday morning. ...

A 24-year-old man was injured on Thursday night after being attacked by five people near Mackenzie, requiring brief hospital treatment. The incident was reported by the victim’s 48-year-old mother ...

A 17-year-old Limassol resident was arrested on Thursday morning for possession of cannabis after Ykan (drug squad) members searched his house. The Ykan officers searched the residence after securing a ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested on Thursday, under suspicion of aiding in human trafficking in Cyprus, police said. After receiving an anonymous tip, the police raided the suspect’s apartment ...

A 22-year-old was arrested in Limassol under suspicion of stealing construction materials from a building site, police said on Thursday. According to authorities, the 22-year-old was discovered by the owner ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of raping his underage daughter in Paphos, police said on Thursday. The case, which is being investigated by the domestic violence unit of ...

Italian authorities handed over a 50-year-old man wanted in Cyprus for several robberies from 2017 to 2018, police said on Thursday. Authorities said that the man was handed over on Wednesday night. ...

A man was arrested in the early morning hours on Wednesday on suspicion of raping a woman in Nicosia. Investigations started on Tuesday when a woman visited a specific police ...

A 26-year-old woman in Limassol was arrested for possession of drugs after members of the Ykan drug squad found methamphetamine in her apartment. According to a police statement released on ...

A 35-year-old man was arrest on Tuesday on suspicion of in theft from a hotel under construction near Latsi in Paphos. He allegedly had an accomplice who, however, managed to ...

A 27-year-old man who was caught with over 900g of cannabis was jailed for three years on Tuesday. According to a police announcement, the man was arrested on October 8 in ...

The Cyprus Post office issued an announcement on Tuesday, warning the public of scam via SMS. The particular scam concerns fake SMS messages requesting payment of customs duties ostensibly sent ...

Police on Monday arrested a 57-year-old man, in relation to a case under investigation of shots fired at two Limassol residences earlier in the year. According to a police statement, ...

Police in Nicosia on Monday arrested a 42-year-old woman under court warrant to investigate a case of arson. According to a police press release, the case concerns an act of ...

Police on Monday arrested and took into custody a 27-year-old woman who tried to depart from Paphos airport for impersonation. According to a police statement, around 2pm on Monday, when ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 41-year-old man in Larnaca for possession of burglary tools and illegal property. According to a police statement, while conducting checks officers of the Larnaca CID ...

Police on Sunday arrested two people in Paphos, aged 25 and 23, for possession of illegal drugs, driving under the influence of narcotics and illegal stay in the country. According to a ...

Two women, who picked up a dropped wallet containing a large sum of cash at a supermarket in Paphos have been identified. According to police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou, on Saturday ...

Paphos police are investigating a case of conspiracy to commit a felony, injury, actual bodily harm and threat after a woman claimed she was attacked. According to a police statement, ...

Police on Sunday arrested a 32-year-old man in Famagusta for possession of cannabis with intent to supply. According to a police statement, members of the drug squad (Ykan) obtained a ...

Police arrested six people yesterday at Paphos and Larnaca airports to facilitate inquiry into five cases of forgery and circulation of false documents, and one case of impersonation. According to ...

Police on Saturday said that three people, two aged 47, and one aged 33 had been arrested as part of an investigation into a string of burglaries and robberies in the Nicosia ...

Authorities on Saturday launched a video to help warn the public about smishing. The campaign is a joint project involving police, the association of Cyprus banks and government cybersecurity authorities. ...