GNR arrests 46-year-old in Amarante with 30 doses of hashish and heroin
GNR officers from the Marco de Canaveses post detained a 46-year-old man on suspicion of drug trafficking in Amarante on 7 November 2026 after finding 30 doses of hashish and 28 doses of heroin in the vehicle he was travelling in. He was made an official suspect and the facts were sent to the Judicial Court of Marco de Canaveses.
🇵🇹 Amarante, Porto district · Portugal
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GNR officers from the Marco de Canaveses territorial post detained a 46-year-old
man on suspicion of drug trafficking in the municipality of Amarante on 7
November 2026.[1][2]During the police operation the officers found drugs inside
the vehicle the suspect was travelling in.[1]
They seized 30 doses of hashish, 28 doses of heroin and several kits containing
methadone, saline and syringes.[1][2]The man was detained and made an official
suspect, and the facts were reported to the Judicial Court of Marco de
Canaveses.[1]
A Verdade reported that the operation was carried out by the GNR’s Porto
territorial command through its Marco de Canaveses post.[3]Tâmega TV reported
that the man was detained in Amarante on 7 November and that officers found the
hashish, the heroin and the methadone, saline and syringe kits in his vehicle.[4]The same outlet reported that the man was made an official suspect and the
case sent to the Judicial Court of Marco de Canaveses.[4]
The Porto territorial command did not say what became of the seized substances or whether the suspect had already been under investigation.[2]
No weight in grams or street value was published for the 30 doses of hashish; the amount is given only in doses.
No arrests beyond the one detained man, and no charge sheet, coercive measure or court outcome were reported; the case had only been sent to the court.
The exact place of the stop inside the municipality of Amarante, and the man's name, were not published.
The heroin and the methadone kits are part of the same seizure but are not cannabis and are excluded from the figures.
Only three accounts of the same regional GNR statement were found, and no copy of the GNR's own published statement for this arrest could be opened.
The Diário Criminal account still gives no weight in grams or street value for the 30 doses of hashish, and it does not name the exact place of the stop inside Amarante.
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.
