#crime

A 41-year-old man wanted in Limassol for kidnapping was arrested on Friday in Paphos after a police chase. Paphos police deputy operations manager Michalis Nicolaou said police received a tipoff ...

Police arrested a 23-year-old man on Friday evening in connection with burglaries and theft in Larnaca. At 1.30am, police received a call that a civilian had found a person acting ...

In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities have ordered residents not to don masks or costumes on Thursday night for Halloween to avoid being confused with criminals amid a worsening ...

A 15-year-old was arrested and detained on Wednesday in connection with an attack and attempted theft against a delivery driver in Limassol. Three others had been arrested on October 25. Two ...

Two teens, aged 15 and 16, were arrested on Wednesday in Paphos to facilitate investigations in connection with conspiracy to commit a crime, theft and carrying a knife. Police were informed at 5.10...

The trial of a 43-year-old man who killed a cat and then shared a grotesque picture of the cat he had just killed to his social media is set to ...

A civilian chased and immobilised a 51-year-old suspect for burglary and theft from a house, on Tuesday in Limassol. The suspect was found to be wanted for five cases and ...

Two 17-year-olds were arrested on Tuesday in Larnaca and Famagusta to facilitate investigations into a case of conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, disturbance, breach of the peace and malicious damage, ...

Yiasser Arar, 40, told the criminal court on Tuesday that he took part in the murder plot against 34-year-old Demetris Andronikou as he owed a personal debt. Sentence will be passed ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for causing grievous bodily harm in an assault in October 2023 in Limassol. A photo and the details of the suspect were posted on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday called on the authorities to speed up their investigations into matters involving corruption and organised crime. Christodoulides held a meeting on the subject of corruption ...

Police are investigating attempted murder after a 22-year-old was heavily wounded in a stabbing at a Limassol bar. A 27-year-old, named by the police as Mehmet Nikola Mehmet, born on ...

Two men appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Thursday, accused of having attempted to steal a dairy farm near the village of Kythrea by pulling a gun on its ...

A 31-year-old man was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday for setting fire to the house he was living in on September 26 in Nicosia. Police said the man ...

A brawl in a Nicosia apartment led to the injury of a 31-year-old, who climbed off a third-floor balcony to avoid being arrested. At around 8.30pm on Wednesday, police were ...

A car bomb exploded at 3am on Thursday in Limassol. Police said the car was being used by a 78-year-old and was parked in Ayios Athanasios area. The blast was ...

Police seized 80kg of cannabis in Limassol and arrested one suspect. In a post on X, police said the drugs were found in the possession of a 28-year-old, during a ...

A man was arrested when large quantities of duty-free tobacco products and thousands of euros in cash were found after a tip-off on Monday in Agglisides in the Larnaca district. ...

People have been receiving fraudulent emails supposedly from the Cyprus police, notifying them that they are involved in various criminal activities. The emails are being sent from fake accounts, presenting ...

Norwegian police have issued an international search request for Rinson Jose, a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that exploded last week, ...

Limassol police arrested a 26-year-old after illegal tobacco products were found in his home. Police found a kilo of narghile tobacco, 27,760 cigarettes of various brands and 12kg and 250gr of ...

An 18-year-old has been banned from entering sports venues for six months after being found guilty of possessing a folding metal bat at a football match and has been ordered ...

A man was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for firing a shotgun into the air as part of his new year’s celebrations. He appeared in front ...

Police have called on the public to be extremely careful regarding a new type of online fraud, this time with emails aimed at extorting money from recipients. Recipients of such ...