Crime

After more than a decade of back-and-forth, parliament appears ready to finally bring to the plenum a bill obliging users of burner phones to identify themselves. Marinos Mousiouttas, chair of ...

The Larnaca – Famagusta criminal court will sentence two men, both aged 20, on Wednesday after they were found guilty of raping an underage girl in Ayia Napa in the summer of 2020. ...

A 36-year-old man has been arrested with over 1kg of cannabis following a car chase in Limassol, police said Thursday. The man was spotted driving in Limassol at around 3.40pm ...

A woman in Limassol has filed a complaint with police that she was the victim of an alleged online scam after €27,129 was stolen from her bank account. The woman told ...

Police on Wednesday said they have arrested two people for theft, including a teenage girl who is suspected of stealing €1,200 from two different residences in Limassol. According to police, the 17...

Five cases of suspicious matches out of a total of 12 investigated by a special branch of the police have been sent for prosecution, police chief Stelios Papatheodorou said on Tuesday. ...

Police arrested two people after locating a 28-year-old in the luggage compartment of a vehicle at the Ayios Dometios crosspoint. According to a police statement, around 8pm on Monday, during ...

A 37-year-old resident of Larnaca has been arrested to help police inquiries into a case of illegal drug possession with intent to supply. Larnaca police said that on Sunday afternoon, ...

A 29-year-old man has been arrested for illegally staying in the Republic. According to Paphos police, the arrest was made on Sunday afternoon by officers at the Polis Chrysochous police ...

A man has been arrested in Limassol for allegedly causing damages to the hotel he was staying in of €20,000. According to assistant police chief of Paphos Michalis Ioannou, the 37-year-old ...

A 41-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the recent theft of items from building sites, police said. During a search of his house a compressor was found that ...

Over 850 firecrackers have been seized by the police in the run up to Easter, which are thought to have come from the north. Police said on Sunday that during checks ...

Famagusta district court ordered four and five-day remands for two 27-year-old suspects arrested on suspicion of a series of burglaries and theft in the district, police said on Saturday. The ...

Turkish Cypriot media on Saturday reported that two men arrested in the north for smuggling illegal migrants were remanded for a further three days. According to Kibris Postasi, the two ...

Police on Saturday said they have arrested three people in Larnaca for facilitating an illegal crossing into the republic. According to a written announcement, on Friday night officers flagged down ...

A 26-year-old man has been arrested for possession of child pornography, police said on Saturday. According to a written announcement, an arrest warrant was issued against the suspect after the ...

Police on Friday warned of a rise in thefts from construction sites and other open spaces. The thefts involve cables, pipes, and other valuable materials. The public is advised to ...

A 37-year-old man in the district of Paphos was referred to direct trial before the criminal court, in relation to an incident involving injury of a police officer on duty. ...

The possibility of re-establishing the anti-poaching unit was discussed by the House environment committee after it was dismantled in 2019 with some MPs saying incidences had increased since it was abolished. ...

A 34-year-old resident of Nicosia appeared in Limassol District Court on Wednesday and was remanded for 24 hours after he was arrested in connection with an alleged attempt to sell three ...

Police arrested a 35-year-old woman on Monday on suspicion of misappropriating funds from a Famagusta based accounting and auditing firm. According to Famagusta, the woman is suspected of having misappropriated ...

Police warned the public on Sunday that there had been an increase in various kinds of cyberfraud. There has been a rise in complaints, especially in Nicosia related to electronic ...

Paphos police on Saturday announced that they had secured a court order suspending the operation of a business establishment in Polis pending the trial of its owner for gambling, the ...

Police have made a second arrest in connection with the discovery of 132 kilos of cannabis in a container at Limassol port earlier this month. They said the arrest of a 61...