Four held in Guimarães and Valongo with 13 hashish doses, cocaine and guns
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.
Portugal’s National Republican Guard (GNR) arrested four men aged between 24 and
69 on Monday 9 November 2026 in an anti-drug trafficking operation across the
municipalities of Guimarães and Valongo.[1][2][3]The operation targeted a group
suspected of handling the entire trafficking supply chain, from buying drugs to
selling them to consumers, in Guimarães in Braga district and Valongo in Porto
district.[4][3]The Criminal Investigation Unit of the GNR’s Guimarães detachment
under the Braga Territorial Command carried out 11 searches: six at homes, four
in vehicles and one at a workshop.[1]Following an investigation of about a
year, the 11 searches led to the four men’s detention on suspicion of drug
trafficking.[5]
Officers seized 13 doses of hashish, 79 doses of cocaine, six doses of heroin
and 5,225 euros in cash, along with a .32-calibre revolver, a 12-gauge shotgun
and six .32-calibre rounds.[1][3]Authorities also confiscated three precision
scales, eight mobile phones and two SIM cards.[6][2][3]About 200 officers from the
GNR and the Public Security Police (PSP), Portugal’s civil police force, took
part in the operation.[6]GNR reinforcements came from the Viana do Castelo,
Porto and Vila Real territorial commands, the Braga Intervention Detachment and
the Public Order Intervention Group, alongside PSP units from its Special Police
Unit and its Braga district and Porto metropolitan commands.[5]
Two of the detainees were released under a Termo de Identidade e Residência, an
identity and residence obligation requiring them to keep authorities informed of
their whereabouts.[1][2][3]The other two were to be brought before an investigating
judge at the Judicial Court of Guimarães on Tuesday 10 November for a first
judicial interrogation to set coercive measures.[1][2]
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Official release photograph published by the GNR with its statement on the Guimarães and Valongo arrests and seizures. Photo: GNRPhoto details
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No weight in grams or street value was published for the 13 doses of hashish, so no cannabis weight or drug value is recorded.
The 79 doses of cocaine and six doses of heroin are part of the same seizure but are not cannabis and are excluded from cannabis counts.
The 5,225 euros in cash, the firearms and the precision scales were seized across the wider anti-trafficking operation rather than tied solely to hashish.
Authorities did not name the parishes or state how the arrests and seizures were divided between Guimarães in Braga district and Valongo in Porto district, so the coordinates mark Guimarães at region precision.
The four men were not named, and no coercive measures or court outcome from the 10 November judicial interrogation had been published.
The available press coverage reproduces the GNR's 10 November statement, with no independent reporting or court record.
Notícias ao Minuto's Lusa dispatch describes the .32-calibre revolver and 12-gauge shotgun as 32 mm and 12 mm calibres, whereas the GNR statement gives them as .32 calibre and 12-gauge.
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.
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.
Guarda Nacional Republicana officers inspected two cafés in Trofa on 7 November 2026, arresting six men aged 20 to 53 on suspicion of illegal gambling. Officers seized four gambling machines, a scale, three knives, two doses of liamba and two doses of hashish, sending the case to the Santo Tirso court.
