Bicycle thief caught red-handed in Tavira
Police found a stash of stolen goods in his house worth €80,000 A 51-year-old man was caught red-handed and arrested on April 1 for stealing several bicycles in Tavira. The
Portugal to debate lowering legal blood alcohol level for drivers
Proposal is to reduce level from 0.5 grams per litre to 0.2 Portugal is to debate, in a public consultation, whether to reduce amount of alcohol allowed in drivers’ blood
One dead, two seriously injured, in stabbing in Óbidos
32-year-old foreign national in police custody A 32-year-old man killed a 72-year-old man in the early hours of this morning in a house in Óbidos, in the district of Leiria.
PJ “don’t know who skull belongs to found close to river”
Skull, a(nother) human bone plus clothing discovered close to EN109 in Aveiro In yet another story about random body parts discovered in unusual places, Correio da Manhã today has run
Road deaths: half involve ‘two-wheeled vehicles’
48 deaths on Portugal’s roads in first 46 days of 2025 In the first 46 days of this year, 48 people died on Portuguese roads. It is not an unusual
First female GNR chief “an example of promoting equality”
Portugal’s interior minister Margarida Blasco said today that the new commander of the GNR in the Azores, Colonel Cláudia Santos – the first woman to take on the role of
GNR agent dies following car crash in Benavente
MAI – the ministry of Internal Affairs – has today lamented the death last night of a young GNR agent (SEPNA division) in a collision between a patrol car and
Over 90 kilos of hashish washes up on Algarve beaches
Stormy weather ‘responsible’ for foiling traffickers The GNR’s Coastal and Border Control Unit (UCCF) has seized over 93 kilograms of hashish washed ashore in the Algarve as a result of
GNR agent violently assaulted after attending domestic violence incident
Female agent treated in hospital A GNR agent was violently assaulted in the early hours of this morning after being called to a domestic violence incident in which a two-year-old
GNR agent injured when driver flees Operation Stop
A GNR agent was injured yesterday after a 57-year-old driver fled an Operation Stop by driving straight at him. The incident, during a GNR operation in Trofa, ended with the