Man arrested for stealing caravan

A 60-year-old man was arrested in the north after having stolen a caravan which had been parked in a car park, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Friday.

The caravan had for weeks been parked off the central Belediye boulevard in Kioneli’s Yenikent suburb but went missing on Tuesday.

Police then found it on Thursday and arrested the man who was driving the car towing it.

They then searched his vehicle, and found a total of 103 cartons of cigarettes, seven cartons of rolling tobacco, one carton of hookah tobacco, and 25 cartons of tobacco sticks for electronic cigarettes, all of which had been smuggled to the north from the Republic.

The tobacco products were all seized by the police and taken as evidence.

Following further investigations, the police discovered that the man had driven to the north from the Republic via the village of Louroujina, instead of via a crossing point, on two separate occasions.

The police’s investigation into the matter is ongoing.