Pafos Live 3 June 2024
Arrest of a 41-year-old wanted by British authorities in Paphos
The Paphos Police arrested a 41-year-old wanted by the British authorities on Sunday.
According to the Assistant Police Director of Paphos Operations, Michalis Nikolaou, at noon yesterday, members of the Paphos Crime Investigation Department located and arrested a 41-year-old man, who was wanted, pursuant to a court warrant issued in the UK, regarding intellectual property law offences, noting that for his case has already been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
Mr Nikolaou told KYPE that the 41 year old was taken into custody and the process of his extradition to the British authorities is expected to begin.
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Three cases of obtaining credit from electronic credit card issuing machines in shops in Limassol are being investigated by the Police, who proceeded to the arrest of a 29-year-old woman. The theft cases are being investigated by the Germasogeia Police Station.
According to a complaint filed with the police by a company that manages electronic money credit card issuing machines, last April, at three kiosks in Limassol, a credit of more than €500 was stolen from the company's machines.
Examinations conducted by members of the Germasogeia Police Station revealed evidence against the 29-year-old suspect and a court arrest warrant was issued against her.
She was located and arrested shortly before 9.30am last night and taken into custody for investigation purposes.
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The members of the Police proceeded to the arrest of two persons, men aged 20 and 18, for the purpose of investigating two cases of theft of money, committed in recent days, in Limassol.
A third case is being investigated against the 18-year-old suspect concerning the theft of a moped, also committed in Limassol on May 7. According to the evidence under investigation in the money theft case, shortly before 5.00 pm last Wednesday, May 29, two suspects stole from a 67-year-old man, a street vendor, the amount of €200. According to the complaint filed with the police by the 67-year-old, six days earlier, the two suspects stole another €40 from him.
Examinations conducted by members of the Limassol Central Police Station revealed evidence against the two suspects. They were arrested under court warrants on Sunday and taken into custody for the purpose of investigating theft cases.
The 18-year-old suspect was arrested under a court warrant, in connection with a case of moped theft, which is also being investigated by the Limassol Central Police Station. The stolen moped was found by members of the Police during a search of the 18-year-old's residence last Thursday, May 30.
According to the evidence under investigation, the moped, worth €500, owned by a 46-year-old man, was stolen between the dates 06-07 May, while parked in a car park of a building in Limassol.
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Police arrested a 45-year-old resident of Nicosia today to facilitate investigations into an ongoing case of extortion of money by false representations.
The case was reported to the Famagusta ICF by a 44-year-old restaurateur, according to whom in 2023 he contacted the 45-year-old, who introduced himself as a lawyer. The 45-year-old allegedly extorted from the 44-year-old a sum of money in excess of €10,000 in order to register employees who would be employed at the complainant's restaurant in the Famagusta district, but did not do so.
A judicial arrest warrant was issued against the 45-year-old, under which he was arrested today and remanded in custody to facilitate interrogations.
The Famagusta ICF is investigating the case.
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A powerful explosion in a tavern disturbed the residents of the Zakaki area today at dawn.
According to police, the explosion occurred around 05:00 at the entrance of the tavern. Members of the ICF of Limassol and a pyrotechnic technician rushed to the spot for on-site examinations and investigations in order to locate evidence and evidence.
The scene remains cordoned off.
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The arrest of a 28-year-old man was carried out yesterday by members of the Police, in an area in Limassol, where he was found driving a car, which had earlier been stolen.
The owner of the vehicle reported a robbery case to the Police, since according to his complaint, immediately before the theft of the car, he was attacked by the perpetrators.
Specifically, around 2.30 in the morning, members of the Police spotted the 28-year-old driving the stolen car on a road in Limassol and called him to stop for checking.
The 28-year-old tried to flee and was followed by members of the police, who then managed to stop him, when he abandoned the vehicle and tried to flee on foot.
The 28-year-old was taken into custody, with the ICF Limassol investigating the robbery case.
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The investigations of the ICF of Limassol are moving rapidly to identify the arsonists who caused the big fire last Friday afternoon in the area of Agios Silas. At the same time, they do not exclude the possibility that the perpetrators are the same ones who set fire to Agios Therapontas in the evening of the same day.
Investigators, in an effort to find more evidence and get to the whereabouts of arsonists, are looking for CCTV from the wider area, while constantly receiving new testimonies from victims and residents of the area.
In the hands of the investigation team is information that two people were riding in a double-cab vehicle and threw lit pieces of solid oil out of the window. This is a testimony that was given to the ICF of Limassol, but the person who gave it told the investigators that this information came to his knowledge from another citizen. Things are complicated here as for the moment the citizen who noticed the two persons and reported it to others has not been identified.
Speaking to "F", the head of the ICF of Limassol, Lefteris Kyriakou, confirmed that this is information, appealing to the public and the specific citizen to go to the Police and give more information about what came to his attention.
Under the microscope of the investigations have also been placed persons who previously concerned the authorities with cases of arson and lighting fires in the countryside. For the time being, nothing reprehensible has emerged, while a person who was convicted a few years ago for a fire in the same area, as reported by "F", continues to serve a prison sentence.
However, it cannot go unnoticed that both fires that broke out in the area of Agios Silas in Limassol, on May 9 and May 31, have many things in common. Specifically, both fires were set in the same area, the second at a distance of 500 meters from the point of the first. They occurred around noon, while on these days strong winds were blowing in Limassol. All this shows that the arsonists acted deliberately, having knowledge of the weather conditions and that these are inaccessible areas.
At the same time, it is worrying that while the Fire Brigade was aware that the fire that threatened the industrial area on May 9, was set maliciously, it appears that additional measures were not taken in the area to prevent yesterday's fire.
Over €200,000 the damage
The owner of the firewood factory, Iakovos Koumis, told "F", who saw his fortune and the efforts of a lifetime reduced to ashes and burned. He blasted the actions of the Fire Department, claiming that he did not drop a drop of water on his business even before the fire spread. "Three fire engines came and went straight to protect a house. The fire was outside my business and instead of putting it out when it was at the beginning, they let it move on to the second block."
He claimed, among other things, that thanks to the help of volunteer groups he saved the generator of his business. The damage to the premises amounts to €200,000, with the owner reporting that expensive machinery equipment was burned. Next to Mr. Koumi's homestead, a business with wooden pallets was burned. The fire damaged prefabricated premises, a livestock farm, while dozens of animals were burned alive. At the same time, crops, trees and wild vegetation were destroyed. Crews of the Limassol District Administration are expected to go to the affected area to record the damage, while about 5 square kilometers were reduced to ashes.
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Cyprus Mail
A fire broke out in a school classroom in Paphos according to the police on Monday.
The incident at the Konia primary school took place Saturday around 5.45 pm and the fire was extinguished by the fire service.
Police established the fire started from three tyres which were used by the school as decorative flower containers on an wall of a prefab classroom, separated from the school building.
The fire from the tyres and spread to the prefab classroom. The extent of the damages has not yet been assessed and the case is under investigation.
