Limassol Criminal Court on Thursday jailed a 24-year-old man for four years after he admitted possessing cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply.
The case came to light on 29 July 2025, when the Anti-Drugs Unit (YKAN) in Limassol received information about drug dealing at a park in Agios Athanasios. The man admitted possessing 76 grammes of cocaine and 523 grammes of cannabis for supply to others.
He was given concurrent prison sentences, the longest being four years for possessing more than half a kilo of cannabis with intent to supply. The sentence runs from 29 July 2025, when he was taken into custody. His 29-year-old co-defendant was jailed for seven years in February.
The defence told the court that the 24-year-old had acted recklessly and without much planning, while in a vulnerable position and seeking to secure drugs for his own use.
The court said, however, that it could not overlook the fact that his actions would have put a significant quantity of drugs on the market, which was prevented thanks to the timely intervention of the police. By taking part, he had contributed to efforts to supply drugs to others, it said. Given the seriousness of the offences, prison was the only appropriate sentence. In mitigation, the court took into account his guilty plea, his remorse, his clean criminal record, his personal circumstances and the circumstances in which the offences were committed.
The case
According to the facts presented in court, the information was that a person was dealing drugs from a vehicle in the park. Drug squad officers and the Limassol Crime Prevention Team went there and found three people, who ran off in the dark and escaped.
At the spot where they had been, officers found and seized a plastic bag containing a large number of packages of cannabis with a gross weight of more than two kilos, 79 grammes of cocaine and 100 ecstasy pills. They also seized 1,790 euros, a precision scale, adhesive tape, empty plastic bags and other items.
