PJ police investigate massive blaze initially attributed to electric car
Early reports described electric car catching fire, which destroyed over 200 vehicles The fire that broke out early yesterday evening in the car park of a car rental company near
PJ arrests two men suspected of attempted murder in the Algarve
The detainees, aged 22 and 27, kidnapped a man in Quarteira in the municipality of Loulé at the beginning of July. The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two men suspected of
PJ detain man in Madeira evading international arrest warrant for sexually abusing own daughter
PJ police have executed an international arrest warrant issued in Nepal for a 51-year-old man suspected of “crimes of sexual abuse and against the liberty and sexual autodetermination of his
PJ police seize almost 18 kilos of cocaine at Sines port
PJ police are celebrating another ‘cocaine coup’ following seizures in ‘Operation Freezer’ – an investigation (still ongoing) which saw 17.7 kilos of cocaine, corresponding to around 1,770 individual doses, concealed
Azores identified as ‘technical support base’ for international cocaine trafficking
Briton and Australian living on Azores islands now behind bars The Azores has been the route, and logistical base, of a major international network for the trafficking of cocaine across
Portugal’s PJ arrest “No 2” of Mocro mafia, living ‘discreetly’ in Lisbon
‘Fantasma’ (ghost) faces extradition to Netherlands Tabloid Correio da Manhã has broken the news of a major arrest in a long-running police operation targeting international drug trafficking. The so-called No
Faro PJ police to move into former Algarve university health school
PJ’s current facilities in Faro have “long ceased to be functional” PJ criminal police in Faro will complete their much-anticipated relocation into new premises in September. The announcement has been
PJ dismantle yet another cocaine smuggling operation
PJ police have dismantled a criminal group that was smuggling large quantities of cocaine into Europe, in a police operation that culminated in the arrest of four men and the
PJ police destroy seven tonnes of drugs
Marking international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking today, PJ criminal police are due to destroy around seven tonnes of various types of illicit substances. The drugs will have
PJ police collaborate in dismantlement of €10 million laundering involving Equatorial Guinea
Investigation began with suspected bribes from work carried out by ‘Portuguese construction company’ Portugal’s PJ judicial police, the Spanish Tax Agency and Europol have dismantled a scheme that is alleged