GNR arrests 25-year-old with 100 doses of hashish in Amarante
GNR officers from the Amarante post detained a 25-year-old man during a patrol in Amarante on 4 November 2026 after finding 100 doses of hashish and two knives on him. He was made an official suspect and the case went to the Amarante court.
GNR officers from the Amarante territorial post detained a 25-year-old man on
suspicion of drug trafficking in the municipality of Amarante on 4 November
2026.[1][2]The arrest came during a patrol when officers approached a suspect in
the street and found he was carrying an illicit substance.[3][2]The search
turned up 100 doses of hashish and two clasp knives.[3][2]
Officers detained the man and formally made him an official suspect at the
scene.[3]The facts were reported to the Judicial Court of the Amarante
district for any coercive measures to be applied.[4][2]
The GNR’s Porto territorial command said the Amarante post made the stop as part
of a regular preventive patrol in the area.[3]The GNR published its own
account of the arrest, listing the same seizure of 100 doses of hashish and two
knives.[1]O Penafidelense reported that the GNR seized 100 doses of hashish
and two clasp knives in the patrol.[5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
