GNR police seize 3.7 tonnes of hashish in Tavira
GNR police seized 3.7 tonnes of hashish in a major drug bust in Tavira on Sunday, March 22. The massive haul was intercepted when a team from Vila Real de
Fake drugs “threaten tourism in Lisbon”
At a moment when tourism is already under attack, online news portal SouthEUSummit reports that an insidious trade in ‘fake drugs’ in the capital is threatening the sector even further.
Seven people remanded in custody after major drug bust in Portimão
Seven of the 10 men who were arrested during a major drug bust in Portimão this week (click here) have been remanded in custody by Portimão Court, while another has
Police arrest 10 people in major drug bust in Portimão
A major drug bust saw police arresting 10 people and seizing two tons of hashish at Portimão’s Praia do Alemão beach on Monday night (February 3). PJ police in the
Drug dealer unwittingly asks police officers to hide his drugs after crashing car
A 30-year-old drug dealer can count himself both lucky and unlucky after surviving a violent car crash only to unwittingly ask two off-duty police officers to hide his drugs before
Authorities swoop on cocaine smugglers despite cyclonic winds
In an extraordinarily complex operation, Portuguese authorities boarded a sailing boat in the middle of the Atlantic, despite cyclonic winds and waves more than eight metres high. The reason: they
Drug traffickers try it on again with ‘cocaine bananas’
Colombian drug traffickers have lost another major haul ‘smuggled’ into Portugal among pallets of bananas. This time the street value of the drugs seized from a warehouse in Porto by
Drug overdose deaths “increase by 30% in five years”
Deaths from drug overdoses have increased by 30% in the last five years – and “in the majority of cases more than one substance was detected”, SICAD, Portugal’s ‘intervention service
Psychiatric internments associated with cannabis use have increased 30-fold in 15 years
For all those hailing Portugal’s decriminalisation of drugs in 2001 “a success”, a new study showing that psychiatric hospital internments associated with cannabis use have increased 30-fold in the same
PJ police take part in capture of first Atlantic ‘narco submarine’ believed to be carrying around 3,000 kgs of cocaine
PJ police took part last weekend in the capture of first ‘narco-submarine’ – a state-of-the-art drug-running vessel – that crossed the Atlantic, passing the Portuguese coast and later surfacing in