Pafos Press 17 November 2023
The Police in Paphos arrested a 34-year-old man on Thursday for an investigated case of assault against a police officer, resisting legal arrest and illegal possession of burglary tools.
According to the Police, information was received that a person was roaming on Thursday at 09:25 on Evangelou Floraki Street in Chloraka.
A patrol of the ADE Paphos went to the scene and identified a person there, a permanent resident of Paphos, aged 34, who, as it appeared, has repeatedly engaged the Police. When members of the force tried to approach him he started running and was stopped.
He allegedly resisted and at 9:40 his arrest was successful for the offense of assaulting a police officer. He was then re-arrested for the crime of resisting lawful arrest.
A physical check carried out on him found a shoulder bag containing a number of burglary tools. He was subsequently arrested for the crime of illegal possession of burglary tools.
The 34-year-old was taken to the custody of the Paphos Police Department where he was taken into custody.
The investigations into the case continue by the Police in Paphos.
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He does not admit the charges facing a 34-year-old man, who is a suspect in a case of attempted murder committed on September 24 in a community of Paphos, against a 31-year-old man who was shot outside his home, resulting in his injury.
The prosecuting authority, represented by the Attorney of the Republic Andreas Hatzikyrou, asked the Paphos Permanent Criminal Court to detain the 34-year-old, however the defense, lawyer Artemis Savvidou, requested that her client be released on condition. The Court reserved its decision for November 22, 2023 at 09:30 in the morning and ordered that until then the 34-year-old remains in custody.
The Court also set the case for hearing on January 25, 2024.
As mentioned in the Court, the offenses facing the 34-year-old, a resident of a village in the Pafos district, are those of attempted murder and the illegal possession and transportation of a firearm as well as explosives.
According to the history of the case, at 05:30 on Sunday, September 24, the victim had arrived at his residence, returning from a nightclub, and parked his car in the yard of his residence.
Then, the 34-year-old suspect, who according to the Police was either following the victim, or was waiting for him at the scene, allegedly "shot at him injuring him" with a shotgun.
Relatives of the victim rushed to the scene, who were awakened by the gunshots and managed to immobilize the alleged perpetrator, who was later arrested on a warrant after handing him over to the Police.
Subsequently, the victim was taken by his relatives to the Paphos General Hospital, where he was given first aid and then transferred to the Nicosia General Hospital where he was admitted to the operating room.
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A 55-year-old man admitted to the charges he is facing before the Permanent Criminal Court that met in Paphos yesterday Thursday for illegally importing into Cyprus through the Paphos airport cannabis weighing about 16 kilograms.
A second person is accused in the case, a 38-year-old woman, who pleaded not guilty to the charges against her.
The large amount of drugs was detected by members of the Airport Police, YKAN and the Customs Department in a coordinated operation based on information received by the security authorities on July 9, 2023.
In the travel luggage of the two persons who arrived from a European country, 16 kilograms and 287 grams of cannabis, packed in nylon packages, were found. The sum of €750 was also found in their possession.
Source: sigmalive
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Pafos Live
Paphos Police arrested two persons shortly after midnight to facilitate investigations into an ongoing case of illegal possession and use of a controlled drug and driving under the influence of drugs.
According to the spokesman of Paphos Police Authority and Head of ICF, Michalis Nicolaou, on 17 November at 00.10, members of the traffic police, while on patrol, intercepted a vehicle on Archbishop Makarios Avenue which was driven by a 36 year old man, who had a 20 year old woman as a passenger.
During the body search, she was allegedly found in possession of a quantity of cannabis weighing approximately 3.5 grams and was subsequently arrested for a flagrant offence.
A drug test on the 36 year old driver of the vehicle was positive. The two persons were taken to the YKAN offices [Paphos unit], charged and released.
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In one week from 6 to 11 November, a total of 225 vehicles were checked, including 192 trucks and 33 buses, in a Police information and control campaign, where 82 violations were detected in trucks.
During the checks, a police representative revealed, no violations were found by bus drivers. Among the 82 infringements detected with trucks, 26 related to the improper condition of truck tyres, 7 offences related to tachographs and five offences related to driver's documentation.
The Road Inspection Awareness and Policing week took place in the context of actions to reduce road accidents and increase safety on the road networks. As part of the weekly action, truck and bus drivers were informed about the risks caused by non-compliance with legislation.
The technical and mechanical suitability of trucks and buses, the validity of drivers' and vehicle documents, speed limitation devices and tachographs, and compliance with driving and working hours , were benchmarks for Police checks, as were offences proved to be the main factors causing serious and fatal road collisions, such as speed limit violations, and using a mobile phone whilst driving.
The Pancyprian road checks were carried out in parallel and at a pan-European level, in the framework of the co-operation between the Cyprus Police and the European traffic police network, ROADPOL.
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Filenews
They are still shocked at the YKAN, after they found drug-impregnated sheets of paper (A4 size glues), which were transported in order to be passed on to the Central Prison by a prison guard.
Analysis of evidence found in the prison guard's vehicle, which was stopped last Monday night on his way to duty, revealed that the nine sheets of paper he was carrying contained a cannabinoid-like drug.
Information from "F" states that each sheet of paper contained 600 squares which constituted a small dose of drugs.
As the deputy commander of YKAN explained yesterday, each square would be cut and then inserted under the user's tongue.
If the multiplication is done, then the nine glues had 5,400 microdoses of drugs. As Mr. Sergides explained, the impregnation of a drug in such glue is a common phenomenon, which is why it is detected by machines at airports and elsewhere, but the control must be targeted.
It is noted that in prisons there is no machine for detecting such drugs, nor is there a urine test to see if a convict has used drugs.
Meanwhile, the prison guard suspected of possession of drugs has not given way to the YKAN after exercising his right to remain silent. The Minister of Justice has asked the National Public Health Service, in a letter, for the suspension of the prison officer while the investigations are ongoing, while for the same case a convict for whom the drugs appear to have been intended, as well as two of his relatives, were questioned.
It is noted that the adhesives with the drugs were wrapped with duct tape and forwarded for scientific examinations.
