Judicial Police of Portugal (PJ)
🇵🇹 Portugal · Police · 6 reports
- People arrested
- 24
- Cannabis seized
- 24.849 t
Totals of what these reports state; a report counts when a source it cites names the agency.
Two men held at Lisbon airport with 34 kg of cannabis leaves
Judicial Police officers detained two men at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado airport after finding 34 kg of cannabis leaves in luggage arriving from Southeast Asia. Both were placed in pretrial detention while the investigation into the trafficking network continues under Lisbon’s DIAP.
Arrested 2Cannabis 34 kgFour held with 1.1 tonnes of hashish off Odemira
Four foreign nationals aged 16 to 43 were arrested at Porto das Barcas, São Teotónio, after police intercepted about 1.1 tonnes of hashish pollen moved by fast boat. The joint PJ-GNR Operation Barcas also seized a car with false plates, surveillance cameras and communications gear in house searches.
Arrested 4Cannabis 1.1 tJudiciary police seize about 100 kg of hashish in a Famalicão warehouse
On 26 October 2026 the Northern Directorate of the Polícia Judiciária arrested a 38-year-old man with no record at a warehouse in Vila Nova de Famalicão and seized about 100 kg of hashish, a large-calibre pistol, a ballistic vest and 16,000 euros. The case began with two postal parcels of cannabis resin from northern Europe.
Arrested 1Cannabis 100 kg28-year-old held at Lisbon airport with 15 kg hashish
Judiciary Police detained a 28-year-old Guinean woman at Lisbon Airport with 15 kg of hashish bound for Guinea-Bissau. She was placed in preventive detention after a first judicial interview; police said the haul would yield about 31,000 doses.
Arrested 1Cannabis 15 kg8,600 kg of hashish seized from two boats south of Portugal; eight held
Portuguese marines from the patrol vessel NRP Drago intercepted two high-powered boats in international waters about 70 nautical miles south of mainland Portugal, seizing around 8,600 kg of hashish. Eight men aged 34 to 40 were arrested and the boats were taken to Faro for investigation by the Judiciary Police.
Arrested 8Cannabis 8.6 tEight held as 15 tonnes of hashish seized from Seefuchs at sea
Spanish authorities stormed the former rescue ship Seefuchs about 100 nautical miles south of Spain and seized 15 tonnes of hashish, arresting five crew at sea and three more on land in an operation announced 30 July 2021.
Arrested 8Cannabis 15 t