Portugal’s Judicial Police, through its National Unit to Combat Drug Trafficking, ran a police operation at Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon and detained two men found with cannabis.[1][2][3] Both detainees are aged 34.[4][5] Both detainees are Europeans who were placed in pretrial detention after a first interrogation.[4][2][5][6][3] The cannabis came from a Southeast Asian country and was carried in the luggage of one of the detainees to Lisbon.[1][2][3] The second detainee was waiting in the airport arrivals area to receive the passenger when Judicial Police officers detained him.[1][4][2][5][6][3]

Officers seized 34 kilograms of cannabis leaves in the operation.[1][4][2][5][6][3] A second outlet gives the same account, describing the two detainees as foreign citizens held with 34 kilograms of cannabis leaves.[7] Police said the detentions fall within the Judicial Police’s work to investigate, prevent and punish drug trafficking connected with the entry, transit and exit of narcotics in national territory.[1]

The detainees were brought before the competent judicial authority for a first interrogation as detained defendants for a coercive measure.[1] The court ordered both to remain in pretrial detention pending further proceedings.[1][2] The Judicial Police investigation continues to establish the full extent of the criminal network, identify other possible participants and determine the destination of the seized drugs, with the inquiry led by Lisbon’s DIAP prosecution office.[1][4][2][5][6]