22-year-old held smoking hashish outside an Alverca school with 4 grams
PSP Escola Segura officers stopped a 22-year-old smoking hashish beside a school in Alverca do Ribatejo on 30 October 2026 and seized 4.58 grams of hashish, which police equated to 9.16 doses. He was detained and released to await trial, and police say they believe the drug was meant for pupils.
🇵🇹 Alverca do Ribatejo, Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon district · Portugal
A 22-year-old man was caught by police smoking hashish beside a school in
Alverca do Ribatejo, in the municipality of Vila Franca de Xira, on Friday 30
October 2026.[1]He had 4 grams of the drug with him, which O MIRANTE said
would supply nine individual doses.[1]
The intervention was carried out by officers of the Escola Segura, the PSP
school-policing programme, attached to the PSP’s Vila Franca de Xira police
division during a preventive patrol.[1]Officers spotted the man smoking what
appeared to be a handmade drug cigarette, known in Portugal as a charro.[1]Asked whether he carried any illegal substance or object, he said yes and took a
transparent plastic package of several pieces of suspected drug from a shoulder
bag.[1]
The Lisbon Metropolitan Command statement put the seizure at 4.58 grams of
hashish, which police equated to 9.16 individual doses, Notícias do Sorraia
reported.[2]The青年教师: A safety search of the young man found no other illegal
object or substance.[2]
O MIRANTE reported that police believe the drug was meant to be sold to pupils.[1]The man was detained but released after appearing in court to await trial.[1]The police statement reported by Notícias do Sorraia records only the
seizure and does not say the young man was detained.[2]
The PSP said its Escola Segura teams would keep running prevention and
inspection operations in the surroundings of schools.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
4.58 g
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
O MIRANTEomirante.ptPTTraficante apanhado a fumar haxixe à porta de escola em Alverca
The two accounts give different quantities: O MIRANTE reports 4 grams equated to nine doses, while the police statement reported by Notícias do Sorraia gives 4.58 grams and 9.16 doses.
The police statement as quoted does not say the man was detained, while O MIRANTE reports that he was detained and released after appearing in court; no coercive measure is named.
No charge, charge sheet or trial date is reported, and the outcome of the case is unknown.
The name of the school and the exact address in Alverca were not published.
The suspect is not named, and no value for the hashish was given.
PSP officers detained a 19-year-old man in Vila Franca de Xira on 10 November 2026 after a patrol in Bom Retiro found 34.88 individual doses of hashish on him. A search of a storage room he used turned up eight more slabs, equated to 1,571.72 doses, for a total of about 1,616 doses.
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.
GNR officers backed by the PSP arrested four men aged 24 to 69 on 9 November 2026 during searches in Guimarães and Valongo, seizing 13 doses of hashish alongside cocaine, heroin, firearms and 5,225 euros in cash. Two suspects were released under an identity and residence term, while two were to appear before an investigating judge in Guimarães for a first judicial interrogation.
Porto Metropolitan Command officers of the PSP detained 12 people and identified three others during anti-drug operations across Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia between 1 and 8 November 2026. Police seized 694 daily doses of hashish alongside cocaine, heroin and 713.78 euros in cash.
