An accounts executive accused of defrauding her employer out of €110,000 through online romance fraudsters indicted based on sufficient evidence presented in court
A homeless man was remanded in custody on Monday after he was arrested on suspicion that he stole a laptop from a Floriana office last week.
Evgeniy Petrov, a 33-year old Bulgarian national, was arraigned on Monday and pleaded not guilty to the theft of the laptop, worth over €2,329, on January 19.
Police investigations also linked the man to another theft that allegedly took place in Republic Street, Valletta in the late hours of January 12 when a Polish man reported that his bag, containing his Sony Experia Z3 mobile phone, some €100 in cash as well as his passport, had been stolen.
Construction worker denied bail on cannabis trafficking charges
A 37-year-old construction worker has been accused of trafficking cannabis, aggravated possession of the substance and committing these offences within 100m of a place frequented by youths
25 January 2021, 11:38am
by Matthew Agius
A court has heard how a man, previously jailed for trafficking drugs in a Marsa public garden some years ago, had been picked up by the police doing exactly the same thing again.
37-year-old construction worker Hassan Jebrel from Niger was arraigned before magistrate Ian Farrugia, accused of trafficking cannabis, aggravated possession of the substance and committing these offences within 100m of a place frequented by youths.
Man remanded in custody after fight with knife and bottles in San Gwann
A man has been accused of injuring two men with a spring-loaded craft knife and throwing glass bottles in a fight in San Gwann on Saturday
25 January 2021, 11:48am
by Matthew Agius
A man has been accused of injuring two men with a spring-loaded craft knife and throwing glass bottles in a fight in San Gwann on Saturday.
Inspector Leeroy Balzan Engerer charged Fares Hmein Sheibani Beaj, 33, from Libya after police were called out to a fight at 10:30pm on 23 January. Officers found an Arab man who said he had been set upon by some people. Shortly afterwards, a car driven by the accused and a woman drove past and the victim had pointed out the man.