Crime

A 25-year-old Austrian national was arrested at Larnaca airport on Wednesday after 23kg of cannabis was found in his luggage. During a customs and police drug squad Ykan search, an ...

A 48-year-old man has been arrested after a hoard of smuggled tobacco products were found at his house, the police said on Wednesday. The man was arrested at his house ...

Two industrial dustbins were torched behind the Elias Neocleous & Co law offices in central Limassol over the weekend, fuelling growing concern over a string of unexplained bin fires in ...

A fake news scam which has circulated on social media in recent weeks has posed as the Cyprus Mail and Cypriot businessman Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. The website, hosted at “zenform....

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou visited the social insurance offices in Paphos on Tuesday afternoon, following damage to a window caused by an object launched at high speed. Earlier in the ...

Larnaca district court on Monday remanded two suspects for trying to smuggle large quantities of tobacco products at Larnaca airport on Sunday. “In the luggage belonging to one of the ...

Gold bars and coins were among valuables confiscated by the Customs Department from Dutch nationals last week at the Ledra street crossing point, it was announced on Monday. On May 24, ...

Three people were arrested on Sunday in central Nicosia during a large-scale police operation aimed at increasing public safety for illegally staying in Cyprus. The arrests came during checks on ...

Larnaca police are looking for a gang of people after two people reported they were attacked early on Monday on the Finikoudes seafront and items stolen from them. According to ...

A 45-year-old man from Paphos lost €8,500 after falling for an internet scam, the police said on Monday. The police said the man told them that on Sunday, he had received ...

Three people have been arrested over an alleged arson attack on a car which was parked in the Nicosia suburb of Ayios Dhometios, the police said on Monday. The fire ...

Two men, aged 49 years old and 47 years old, were arrested on suspicion of illegally holding fundraising events, the Paphos police said on Monday. The pair stand accused of having recruited “...

In 2024, a total of 142 children spoke to the specially trained investigators of the police’s child sexual abuse investigation unit, reporting they were victims or witnesses of child sexual abuse. ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having stolen a wallet from a car in Larnaca, the police said on Saturday. Larnaca police spokesman Christodoulos Konsolos said the theft ...

The five people – four women and one man – who were arrested last week over the finding of classified documents in the home of a prison warden, were released on Friday. ...

The Turkish gunman who was arrested by the Republic of Cyprus’ police and handed over to the United Nations and then the Turkish Cypriot authorities at the Ledra Palace crossing ...

A 37-year-old was sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing a minor at Paphos district court on Friday. The sentence was imposed after the man had admitted to ...

A 52-year-old suspect who had a European arrest warrant from Spain pending against him was arrested by Larnaca police overnight. Police arrested him at the airport during a passport check ...

Police are on Friday investigating a spate of closely-timed attacks on Limassol premises during the past week, including the latest: overnight shots fired at a coffee shop, and explosions of ...

A 41-year-old man who was wanted in Jordan in connection with a murder has been arrested in Paphos, the police said on Thursday. The Jordanian authorities had informed the Cypriot ...

Four people, three of whom are minors, were arrested in Limassol on Wednesday evening after a total of 59 grams of cannabis was found in their car, the police announced on ...

Police on Thursday are investigating the circumstances surrounding an explosion at a pub in Limassol. According to the police the device exploded at around 5.30am in the suburb of Zakaki, ...

A 43-year-old man of Cypriot origin, born in Britain, is suspected of leading a major drug smuggling ring that was dismantled in Greece. Authorities allege the group was involved in ...

A 40-year-old man, wanted in connection with burglary in Nicosia, was arrested on Tuesday. The police said an arrest warrant had been issued against the suspect for burglary, theft, causing ...