Mega-police operation rounds up drugs, guns and suspects in Almada
As many as 200 police were taking part in a major operation in Almada, on the outskirts of Lisbon, on Wednesday morning. According to initial reports coming through as the
Police confiscate two-tone shipment of hashish in Tavira
A two-tonne shipment of hashish was seized by PJ police in Tavira in the early hours of Wednesday morning (February 24). The drugs were shipped in on a boat by
Suitcase concealing heroin travels to Faro from India, “via various airports”
PJ police are investigating the reason an unaccompanied suitcase concealing 200 grams of heroin travelled to Faro from India, via various airports, before being picked up by a young Indian
Record Algarve drug haul scoops 700 cannabis plants, cocaine, ecstasy and magic mushrooms
Faro GNR are celebrating their best drug bust of 2015 this week after a three-month-long investigation ended with the apprehension of nearly 700 cannabis plants, 11,395 doses of cocaine, 6.4
International drug smugglers using Quarteira foiled by Spanish and Portuguese police
In a complex investigation involving 2.4 tons of hashish brought into Europe from Morocco, Spanish and Portuguese police have rounded up a smuggling gang that used Quarteira as one of
Left Bloc candidate “masterminded high-tech cannabis plantations”
A former political candidate for the Left Bloc (BE) party has been arrested in Guimarães after PSP police found out he was the mastermind running a local network of “high-tech
Three people arrested in large drug bust in PortimĂŁo
Three people were arrested and around eight kilos of hashish and €12,000 in cash were seized in a huge drug bust in the Western Algarve on Monday (October 19). The
“Famous lawyer” caught out in mega drugs-bust in Guimarães
Just as law firm PLMJ is in the spotlight for alleged illegal payments of over €1 million made by Silves Council, one of their regional representatives Francisco Lobo Xavier has
Cocaine “hidden in rice” and shipped to Portugal as part of UN “Zero Hunger” campaign
A United Nations campaign to supply rice to the impoverished was “hijacked” by cocaine smugglers to divert more than 30 kilos of cocaine into Portugal. The ruse was ingenious –
Refugee crisis and “calm seas” see drug trafficking gangs return to Portugal with a vengeance
Portugal is back on the route of major drug traffickers. The escalating refugee crisis combined with this summer’s relatively calm Atlantic waters have seen criminal gangs return here with a