I (Almost) Got Away With It

Greek police said it had arrested on Wednesday a foreign national near the country's northeastern border who is wanted on an outstanding European warrant for attempted burglary and burglary using a vehicle.

A mother who left her one-year-old daughter at home while she popped out to the supermarket to buy cigarettes has received a six-month jail sentence, suspended for three years.

A Thessaloniki criminal court found the 37year-old mother guilty of endangering a minor.

A 53-year-old woman who conned migrants and others by posing as a lawyer or accountant with connections in the civil service has been taken into custody on a pending arrest warrant.

According to a police announcement on Tuesday, she was tracked down in Athens on Monday and will be sent to jail where she is to serve a sentence of eight years.

Two men wanted on arrest warrants for crimes including burglaries and illegal weapons possession were apprehended in Athens after a chase in which a security guard was injured, the police said in an announcement on Tuesday.

Police in the Athens district of Nikea have arrested a 48-year-old man who abused and threatened a shop employee with a grenade.

Police said that a man had entered the electronic appliance sales with a cellphone for repair, which he claimed belonged to a relative.

A 41-year-old man wanted for a burglary was arrested in central Athens in the early hours of Wednesday after driving his getaway car in one-way, heavily policed street of central Athens, in the wrong direction.

An 83-year-old man arrested on Tuesday in southern Greece for the shooting of a neighbour over a long-running property dispute was led before a prosecutor on Thursday for questioning.

A 32-year-old man suspected of the murder of a young woman working on the island of Kos was granted an extension and will testify on Wednesday.

The man, who has so far been charged with kidnapping, is the main murder suspect and will be detained until he testifies.

Greek police said on Friday it was searching for a 27-year-old woman who went missing on the island of Kos, in the Dodecanese, on Monday night. 

A man was arrested on Thursday by a police SWAT team after he threatened to blow himself up in Kissamos in Hania on the island of Crete.

The incident occurred when police showed up at his house to arrest him on a prosecutor's order over a series of offenses.