28-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.
The Polícia Judiciária, Portugal’s national Judiciary Police force, detained a
Guinean woman at Lisbon Airport after detecting hashish in her baggage.[1][2]The
woman is 28 years old.[1][2]She was detained on the previous Saturday before the
Tuesday announcement.[1]A Judiciary Police source provided the details of the
case to the Lusa news agency.[1]She has since been heard in a first judicial
interrogation before a judge.[1]The judge imposed preventive detention, which
the source described as the most severe coercion measure.[1][2]The detention was
publicly disclosed on Tuesday.[1]
Officers seized15 kilograms of hashish found in her luggage.[1][2]The hashish
had Guinea-Bissau as its stated destination.[1][2]The Judiciary Police said the
seized drugs would yield about 31,000 individual doses.[1][2]
The detention took place within an ongoing investigation directed by the 1st
Section of Lisbon’s Department of Investigation and Criminal Action.[1][2]That
inquiry is aimed at preventing and repressing the introduction, transit and exit
of narcotic products in and from national territory.[1]Investigations were
continuing to establish the full contours of the illegal drug-trafficking
scheme.[1]
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.
