Pafos Live 5 February 2024
Two unidentified masked men broke into the Pafiti residence last night. The 57-year-old owner of the house was in bed shortly after ten o'clock in the evening in the town of Paphos.
As he told the police, the two robbers hit him with their hands on the head, as soon as he noticed them, they snatched his mobile phone and €30 and disappeared.
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44-year-old fined €500 for using device that produces mimic bird voices
An extrajudicial fine of €500 was issued against a 44-year-old hunter in the Paphos district yesterday.
According to Paphos Assistant Police Director of Operations Michalis Nicolaou, on Sunday, at 09:00, members of the Game Service in the area of the village of Lemona spotted a 44-year-old man who was allegedly hunting using a device that produces mimic bird voices.
The 44-year-old was fined €500 by the Panagia police station.
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As part of an assessment of evidence, members of the YKAN (Limassol Unit) conducted a search yesterday morning, based on a court warrant, at the home of a 26-year-old man in Limassol.
During the search, two nylon packages containing a total quantity of cannabis weighing approximately 260 grams were found in a pot in the kitchen, resulting in the 26-year-old being arrested for a flagrant offence. The 26-year-old's vehicle was also searched, but nothing objectionable was found.
The arrested man was taken to the offices of YKAN where he was re-arrested on the basis of a court warrant and detained.
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Pafos Press
In the last three days, the Police in Paphos filed 155 traffic violations complaints as part of a coordinated operation to prevent road collisions.
According to the Assistant Police Director of Paphos Operations, Michalis Nikolaou, of the 155 traffic complaints, 14 related to driving under the influence of alcohol, one complaint to driving under the influence of drugs and 22 complaints to driving at excessive speed.
Also, 11 vehicles were seized for various traffic offenses such as driving without insurance, etc.
In the last three days, there were 5 traffic road collisions with only material damage, he said.
The coordinated operations of the Police will continue at a later stage, concluded Mr. Nikolaou.
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Filenews
The three defendants, aged 34, 31 and 23, who appeared before the Assize Court in Paphos on October 24, did not admit to the charges they face for illegal possession and transport of 96,000 firecrackers. The Assize Court then set the case for today for hearing purposes, so that the defence could be given all the witness material and the evidence could be examined by its experts.
A total of 96140 firecrackers were found and confiscated in a wooded area in the area of Tzielefos bridge in eastern mountainous Paphos following an intelligence assessment by YKAN. Members of the Service specifically went to the area on March 12, 2023 and spotted three men unloading boxes from two cars.
Subsequent examinations revealed 10 cardboard boxes containing 18,960 firecrackers in the first car in which a 34-year-old man had travelled to the area. In the second car, in which a 31-year-old and a 23-year-old man had travelled to the area, another 52 boxes were found, containing 77,180 firecrackers. All three persons were arrested for the offence of illegal possession and transport of explosives. In addition to the 34-year-old's possession, a shoulder bag containing more than 3,000 euros was found, the origin of which he did not give satisfactory explanations.
Further examinations by police pyrotechnics revealed that these were factory cylindrical paper firecrackers
