Pafos Live 19 June 2024
Police arrested a second person, a 50-year-old woman, to facilitate investigations into an ongoing case of conspiracy to commit a felony, residential burglary and theft after the arrest of a 20-year-old man, while a third person is wanted for the same case.
According to Paphos Assistant Police Director of Operations, Michalis Nicolaou, on June 16, a 28-year-old woman from Paphos reported that between June 14 and 16, her residence in Paphos was burglarized and various alcoholic beverages as well as gold jewellery worth €3,000 were stolen. Examinations revealed that the entrance to the house was achieved through a closed but unsecured door.
On June 17, a person went to a pawnshop in Paphos and presented gold jewellery in order to sell it. The employee expressed suspicion that it may be stolen goods and the person fled, leaving the jewellery there.
Members of the Paphos Police visited the place, conducted examinations and secured testimony that he was a 20-year-old man from Paphos against whom an arrest warrant was issued. On the same day, at 4:20 p.m., he was located and arrested on a court warrant.
Further examinations revealed that another person appeared to be involved in the burglary. According to Mr. Nicolaou, yesterday members of the Pafos Crime Detection Department conducted a search at the residence of this person, while he was absent and his mother aged 50 was at home.
During the search of the residence, part of the stolen goods from the burglary were found, as well as a number of items of gold jewellery of unknown origin so far. The mother of the wanted man did not give satisfactory explanations and was arrested for both residential burglary and illegal possession of property, while her son is on the run.
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As part of the investigation of a case of conspiracy to commit a felony and theft, the Police proceeded to arrest two persons.
They are men aged 33 and 38, who were arrested on the basis of court warrants and detained to facilitate interrogations.
The 33-year-old was brought yesterday before the Pafos District Court, which issued a three-day detention order, while the 38-year-old is expected to be brought before the Court today.
The case under investigation concerns the theft of alcoholic beverages worth €5,000 from a liquor store in Paphos.
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Filenews
In the framework of the cooperation between the Police and the Customs Authorities, in order to identify persons importing drugs into the Republic of Cyprus, two women aged 20 and 22, who arrived at Larnaka airport from abroad, were identified today at noon and stopped for inspection.
These are English women who arrived at 12:30 from Thailand via Dubai. Cannabis with a total gross weight of approximately 41 kg was found in their luggage. The two women were arrested and detained while the YKAN (Larnaca Unit) continues the examinations.
Tomorrow they will appear before a Larnaka court for the issuance of detention orders.
