Pafos Live 17 July 2025
Members of the Police proceeded yesterday around 10.00 p.m., to the arrest of a 30-year-old woman, pursuant to a court warrant, in connection with a case of burglary of a house and theft of three cars.
For the case, a 35-year-old man was arrested on 02/07/2025.
According to the evidence under investigation and a complaint submitted to the Police on August 20, between 05 and 20 August, 2024, a burglary of a residence was committed in the Paphos district, from which the keys of three cars were stolen and then the three vehicles, which were in the yard of the house.
One vehicle was found on August 29, in the area of Ypsonas.
The second vehicle was found on October 25, in the area of Kato Polemidia.
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Pafos Press
Eight vehicles were engulfed in flames in Tseri. According to the Police, at around 4.30 am today, a fire broke out in eight cars, while they were parked in an open field, outside a building, in an area in Tseri. The vehicles belong to tenants who live in the building. Members of the Police went to the scene for examinations, while the fire was extinguished by members of the Fire Department. Examinations at the scene to determine the cause of the fire are continuing.
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Filenews
The Police arrested a 37-year-old man yesterday, as he is accused of stealing €2,200 from a 50-year-old.
According to the Police, yesterday afternoon, a 37-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia with a court warrant, in connection with a case of theft by a representative, which is being investigated by the Famagusta Police Department.
According to the data under investigation, between January 11-13, 2025, the 37-year-old extracted a sum of money of €2,200 from a 50-year-old man.
A photo and details of the 37-year-old, who was wanted, were made public by the Police, on 15/07/2025, in order to collect information that could help locate him.
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A 43-year-old man, pursuant to a court warrant, was arrested yesterday, shortly before 7:00 p.m., by members of the Police.
According to the data under investigation, last Sunday, a suspicious person entered the fenced area of an apartment building in Limassol and attempted to break into the main entrance of the building.
From examinations carried out by members of the Limassol TAE, evidence emerged against the 43-year-old.
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In a direct trial before the Permanent Assize Court of Larnaca, which will meet on September 11, three persons, aged 35, 32 and 38, were referred yesterday regarding two cases of arson and one attempted arson committed in the Aradippou area.
According to the Police, today, Wednesday, July 16, the case was registered today before the Larnaca District Court, which referred the three suspects to a direct trial before the Assize Court.
Until September 11, the three suspects will remain in custody.
It is recalled that the first arson in a car owned by a 70-year-old man was committed on April 25, from which the vehicle was partially burned. The second arson of the vehicle took place on June 6, resulting in the complete destruction of the car.
The arson attempt was carried out on July 4 when, as the 70-year-old reported, a suspicious person threw two incendiary Molotov cocktail objects in the yard of his residence, resulting in a fire.
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The 51-year-old defendant denies everything about the shocking case brought to light by Filenews (April 30) and concerned the sexual abuse of his stepdaughter from the age of 9 until now at the age of 27.
The case was previously referred for trial before the Limassol Permanent Assize Court and today, Wednesday (16/7), the 51-year-old was charged with the charges included in the multi-page, heavy indictment.
The 51-year-old denied all 49 charges. The indictment includes a number of offences, involving sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a child, as well as charges of joint assault and threatening. These are offences which, according to the victim's complaint, were committed from 2007 to 2016 - when the victim reached the age of majority - as well as from April 2025 until the day he filed a complaint with the authorities.
The case was set for hearing at the beginning of October, when it will be tried by the new composition of the Permanent Assize Court, while the 51-year-old was taken back to the Central Prison where he remains there as a defendant.
As we had written in a previous publication, the complainant's nightmare began at the tender age of 9. Instead of playing with dolls and toys, she allegedly became a slave to her stepfather's sick appetites. Behind the closed doors of their residence, a disgusting crime was hiding for 18 years.
The young woman, after her adulthood, created a relationship with another man. However, she did not talk to anyone about what she had been experiencing for years from the man who raised her as a father but in the end, he allegedly abused her. The sick things the accused allegedly committed were not enough, he also had the audacity to ask the victim to place a camera in her bedroom, so that the personal moments she had with her partner could be recorded and monitored from his mobile phone.
A few days before the victim filed a complaint, she got into a confrontation with the 51-year-old, who, as she claimed, was in a state of intoxication. At some point, the 51-year-old pushed her and fell to the ground. It was then that the truth was revealed, after the victim "insured" and talked to her partner about what was happening.
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A project that was seen by a businessman, who managed to give more than €100,000 to a 39-year-old electrician, who eventually ended up in prison, related to the fencing of the area where two photovoltaic parks were supposed to be built.
The Larnaca Permanent Assize Court sentenced him to 4 years in prison, after finding him guilty of charges related to money laundering, extortion of money through false representations and forgery.
The incredible scam was set up in 2021 when the accused, who is a licensed electrician, met the complaining businessman through mutual acquaintances.
The 39-year-old proposed the creation of two photovoltaic parks on land in the Larnaca district that belonged to the complainant.
In fact, in order to convince him that he could construct photovoltaic parks in this particular plot, he presented him with a forged permit from the Cyprus Electricity Authority on another date.
After this development, the businessman was convinced and began to pay him various sums of money, because the defendant told him that he had to initiate the procedures required for the creation of the two photovoltaic parks.
The 39-year-old, however, only proceeded with the fencing of the plot.
Along the way, the businessman, who managed to pay the defendant the amount of €112,000, began to suspect that something was wrong.
When he shared his concerns with the 39-year-old, he found various excuses for the delay in the start of the creation of the photovoltaic parks.
The complainant finally realized that he had fallen victim to fraud and reported the case to the Police, when he found out that a permit had never been issued by EAC for photovoltaic parks on the plot he owned.
It is noted that the businessman was the main prosecution witness in the trial of the 39-year-old and was judged as reliable by the Permanent Court of Assize Justice.
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The Police proceeded to the arrest of five persons, for flagrant offenses of stabbing and possession of an offensive instrument, possession of drugs, and illegal possession of property, in the context of policing operations carried out last night in the city and district of Larnaca, with coordinated policing operations continuing in all districts.
In Larnaca, coordinated policing operations continued by the Police Directorate, with the assistance of the MMAD and the Ministry of Police, in various areas of the city and the province, with the focus being on the coastal front of Finikoudes. As a result of the policing and control measures, five persons were arrested, for various flagrant offenses.
Specifically, a 23-year-old man was arrested, who was stopped for a check after driving a motorcycle that did not have a registration number and in the possession of which a folding knife was found. As it was found during the check, he was driving the motorcycle illegally, without holding a driver's license and without being covered by an insurance certificate.
A 28-year-old man was arrested for possession of aggressive instruments, specifically a bat and an iron fist, who was riding as a passenger in a car driven by a 34-year-old and was stopped for a check, while two men aged 21 and 42 were arrested for possession of drugs, specifically a small amount of cannabis plant material.
Finally, a 21-year-old man was arrested for the flagrant offense of illegal possession of property, after two silver hand chains, in nylon packages, were found in his possession, in which the prices of €78.20 and €85.92 respectively were indicated and for which examinations are being carried out to see if they are the product of theft.
The coordinated operations of the Police continued in the rest of the provinces of Cyprus, with patrols and checks. At the same time, with the aim of preventing nuisance phenomena, daily checks in nightclubs continued, especially in relation to the sale of alcoholic beverages and the use of loudspeakers for music broadcasting.
It is worth mentioning that in the last 24 hours, daily traffic checks have continued throughout Cyprus, in order to prevent road traffic collisions and increase safety in the road network.
Coordinated operations and policing actions in all provinces, with special emphasis on coastal and tourist areas during this summer period, continue daily by the Police.
