PJ’s prison corruption swoop uncovers “clandestine drug production laboratory”
Flat in Lisbon “functioned exclusively as laboratory” PJ judicial police have dismantled a clandestine drug production laboratory operating out of a flat in Lisbon. The discovery came during the operation
Portuguese national tries trafficking over €1 million-worth of cocaine into UK in wheelchair
56-year-old arrested at Manchester airport with 12 kilos of cocaine A 56-year-old Portuguese national has been intercepted and detained at Manchester airport with 12 kilos of cocaine hidden in the
PJ police on trail of Brazilian diving crew that recovers cocaine attached to ships’ hulls
Crew’s leader arrested in joint police operation Portugal’s PJ police are on the trail of a diving team whose job it is to remove canisters of cocaine attached to ships’
PSP creates first police station focussed on drug crime in Lisbon
Station aims at making fight against drug crime “more efficient and effective” Portugal’s PSP force has created the first police station in Lisbon specialising in the investigation of crimes related
PSP Carnival Operation resulted in 723 arrests
Forty-three firearms and 24,100 doses of drugs were seized during the eight-day operation. The Public Security Police (PSP) revealed in a statement that during the eight days of the “Carnival in Safety 2025”
Overdose deaths increase by 16%: cocaine is drug most responsible for mortality in Portugal
Overdose deaths increased by 16% in 2023 compared to the previous year, totalling 80, the latest annual from the Institute for Addictive Behaviors and Dependencies (ICAD) reveals today, highlighting an
One of UK’s most wanted sentenced to 12 years following arrest in the Algarve
The suspect, who had been on the run for four years, was one of the top members of a criminal organisation in Wales wanted for drug dealing. Calvin Parris, one
Drug mules caught with 33,000 doses of cocaine
PJ judicial police at Lisbon airport have had the unenviable task of dealing with drug mules from Brazil and Guinea-Bissau with “around 33,000 doses of cocaine hidden” either on or
Three arrested for drug dealing in Tavira
PSP police arrested two men and one woman, aged 42 to 56, on Sunday for drug trafficking in Tavira. Following months of investigation, police executed two search warrants, seizing 146
Drug-dealing behind two recent violent deaths in Greater Lisbon
Both victims targeted by Brazilian drug trafficking gangs Recent days have seen reports of a ‘burning body’ discovered in a Seixal dumpster, and a man ‘shot dead’ at the doorway