CRIME ROUND UP

 Pafos Live 28 May 2024

A driver was spotted driving under the influence of drugs at dawn, while a quantity of drugs was allegedly found in his possession.

According to Paphos Assistant Police Director of Operations, Michalis Nicolaou, shortly after midnight members of the Paphos Crime Prevention Unit of group "Z" intercepted the 24-year-old driver on Tombs of the Kings Avenue.

As Mr. Nicolaou told CNA, after a search, 3.5 grams of cannabis were found in the driver's possession, while he was positive in a drug test he underwent.  The 24-year-old was subsequently arrested and, after being charged in writing, was released to be summoned later.

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Police arrested a 27-year-old man on Monday to facilitate investigations into an ongoing case of illegal employment, while his employer was charged in writing with the offence of illegal employment.

According to Paphos Assistant Police Director of Operations, Michalis Nicolaou, yesterday members of the Pafos Police Force went to Pallados Street in Paphos to investigate information that foreigners were working there illegally on a construction site. Going there, they spotted a person working on a sidewalk under construction. As found by an inspection, he is a 27-year-old from Syria who has a residence permit in Cyprus but not a stamped contract for employment and work. His employer was a 35-year-old foreigner, permanent resident of Cyprus.

The 27-year-old was arrested for illegal employment and the 35-year-old was summoned to the police where he was charged in writing with the offence of illegal employment.

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Paphos Police arrested a 37-year-old man to facilitate investigations into an ongoing case of theft from a residence.

According to Paphos Assistant Police Director of Operations, Michalis Nicolaou, on May 24, a 26-year-old permanent resident of Cyprus reported to the Pafos ICF that the night before, an unknown person entered the residence through an unsecured balcony door and stole property of a total value of 2,250 euros.

Further examinations in the area secured testimony against a 37-year-old permanent resident and after a warrant was obtained for his arrest, he was arrested and detained on Monday evening.

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Police have arrested a 48-year-old resident of Nicosia to facilitate investigations into an ongoing case of illegal possession of property and stabbing.  The 48-year-old was located and arrested outside an abandoned house in Nicosia district following a report of a burglary at that house.

Specifically, around 7 p.m. yesterday, information was received by the Police about a possible burglary in an abandoned house in a rural area of a village in the Nicosia district. Members of the Pera Chorio Police Station immediately went to the area, where they spotted a man coming out of the fence of the said house, in possession of a bat.  As soon as the stranger noticed the policemen, he fled, but the members of the Police stopped him.

As it was found, from the examinations that followed, he is a 48-year-old resident of Nicosia.

Nearby the house, the 48-year-old's car was also found. Inside the vehicle, several burglary tools, a knife, a bat, drug devices and a quantity of crystalline substance, believed to be narcotics, were located after a search and seized.  

A large number of musical instruments and ten mobile phones were also found and confiscated, for which the 48-year-old did not give a satisfactory explanation as to how they came into his possession.  As a result, the 48-year-old was arrested and taken into custody to facilitate interrogations.

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A quantity of cannabis exceeding one kilogram was found and confiscated yesterday afternoon by YKAN, in the Nicosia district. In connection with the case, two persons were arrested and detained to facilitate interrogations.

Specifically, around 7 p.m. Yesterday, members of the YKAN stopped a car, which was moving on a village road in the Nicosia district, for inspection. As soon as the driver stopped the vehicle, the occupants of the car got out of it and tried to run away. Members of the Police followed them and managed to intercept two persons, aged 47 and 27.  A search of the car followed, where a quantity of cannabis, with a total gross weight of one kilogram and 270 grams, was located and seized.

As a result, the 47-year-old and 27-year-old were arrested for a flagrant offence and detained to facilitate interrogations.

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Police were mobilized after an explosion that occurred in the early hours of Tuesday outside a house in the Nicosia district.

According to the Police, around 04:00, a report was received about an explosion outside a house in Engomi.

Members of the Police immediately rushed to the scene, who cordoned off the scene where investigations are currently underway.

The explosion damaged the railing of the house.

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The curtain came down today with acquittal on another serious case of a sexual nature that has been heard behind closed doors for almost two years.

The Limassol Permanent Assize Court acquitted and acquitted three young defendants of rape and sexual abuse of a minor in 2019.

The three youths, a 22-year-old man and two 20-year-olds, were facing charges of rape, sexual exploitation and child abuse, corruption of a young woman aged 14. The defendants denied all charges they faced and the case went to a court hearing.

The Permanent Assize Court of Limassol, according to information provided by philenews, in today's decision, found the complainant completely unreliable at various points in her testimony. It also ruled that the right of a minor defendant had been violated as upon receipt of her statement, it was made without the presence of a lawyer.

After a two-hour reading of the judgment, the three young men left the Assize Courtroom, smiling and hugging their relatives.

According to the facts of the case, the then 14-year-old complainant in her testimony claimed that she and one of the accused, around mid-December 2019, had arranged an appointment for a night out. She claimed that the defendant – then an 18-year-old – picked her up from her home in his car, in which his two 17-year-old friends were travelling.

According to what the minor claimed, she had been taken to a remote area in Limassol, claiming that two of the three had sex with her involuntarily.

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The Fire Brigade and the Police were mobilized after a fire broke out inside the stadium at Agia Fylaxeos High School in Limassol.

At first sight and according to the testimonies obtained by the police, students wearing balaclavas, appear to have thrown tires inside the stadium and set fire.

According to philenews, the fire was noticed by the school administration and teachers, who rushed with fire extinguishers to extinguish it. A fire brigade of the Department of Forests arrived at the scene in time to extinguish the fire.

It should be noted that members of the Police went to the incident and from the oral testimonies they obtained, it appears that the perpetrators are students wearing hoods.  Outside the fencing of the school field, three burnt tires were found, in which it seems that the violators set the fire.

This is the second incident recorded in a high school in Limassol. Specifically, again students set fire to tires in a high school, resulting in the Fire Brigade being put on alert.