Drug ‘mule’ arrested in Madeira
A woman caught smuggling around 800 individual doses of heroine in her body was arrested by police near Madeira Airport on Wednesday last week. The unemployed 28-year-old, resident in Madeira,
Major drug bust nabs 9,000 doses of heroin
A major police swoop on drug-dealing activity in central areas of the Algarve has led to the arrest of six suspects and the confiscation of over 9,000 doses of heroin
Sewage reveals patterns of cocaine abuse in Lisbon
Samples of sewage are telling tales about drug abuse in Lisbon after a study revealed that “significant amounts” of cocaine and nicotine were detected in wastewater. The study by the
Fewer drug-related deaths in Portugal
The chairman of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, João Goulão, has presented a report about drugs in Portugal to Parliament, with good and bad news. The
Biggest cocaine seizure ever
Officers from the Judicial Police (PJ) have seized three tonnes of cocaine in Faro, in the biggest ever operation of its kind in Portugal. The swoop, part of an ongoing
Cocaine smuggler caught at Lisbon Airport
Cocaine weighing eight kilos has been discovered in several pieces of clothing and the soles of various pairs of flip-flops in a passenger’s luggage at Lisbon Airport. The Polícia Judiciária
Cannabis plantation discovered
Two suspects have appeared in court at Albergaria-a-Velha on charges of cultivating a cannabis plantation. The plants covered a 40 square metre settlement in a farmstead in the suburbs of
Drug squad triumphs
Faro GNR’s Núcleo de Investigação Criminal de Droga, a special drug investigation team unit created a year ago, has already made 56 arrests for alleged drug trafficking and seized around
Police find cannabis plantation
Vila do Bispo GNR discovered a cannabis plantation in an isolated zone of Barão de São Miguel recently. In total, authorities seized 184 feet of the plant, detaining a German
Cocaine coup uncovered
Police have made one of their biggest hauls of high quality cocaine that Portugal has ever seen. In total, 2231,615kg of the drug was seized at the port of Leixões,