Two held in Lisbon as heroin raid finds hashish and liamba
PSP officers arrested two men aged 24 and 27 in Campo de Ourique, Lisbon, on 3 November 2026 after a heroin investigation and found hashish and liamba among the drugs stored in two homes. Police valued the whole haul at more than 2 million euros and called the heroin the year's largest such seizure.
Lisbon’s PSP municipal police detained two men aged 24 and 27 in the Campo de
Ourique parish of Lisbon on Tuesday 3 November 2026 on suspicion of drug
trafficking.[1][2]Officers of the Lisbon criminal investigation division made
the arrests in the act during an operation against direct sales to consumers,
focused on the Vale de Alcântara area.[3]The investigation began in July into
two men living on the south bank of the Tagus with family ties to the Quinta do
Loureiro neighbourhood in Lisbon, and identified two homes used to store drugs.[1]The men were intercepted while making another sale to a customer, according
to the PSP.[3]
The searches produced 1,084.44 doses of haxixe, Portuguese for hashish, and
115.34 doses of liamba, a Portuguese word for herbal cannabis, alongside
230,614.9 doses of heroin, 6,457.4 doses of cocaine and 8,305.96 grams of
cutting agent.[1][2]The police also seized7,764 euros in cash, 31 rounds of 9mm
ammunition, two Glock magazines, precision scales, packing machines and other
preparation equipment.[3][2]The police said the seized drugs could have yielded
more than 2 million euros at street value.[1]
A PSP official told Lusa that the 23 kilograms of heroin were the largest
seizure of that drug in 2026 and more than a third of all heroin seized by
criminal police in 2025.[1]The homes in Bairro da Quinta do Loureiro used for
storage were being occupied illegally, the police said, without disclosing where
on the south bank the two men lived.[4][2]Both men were to appear before a judge
on Wednesday 4 November for a first judicial interview to decide on coercive
measures.[3][2]
The two men, who already had records for drug trafficking, kept the flats under permanent watch and controlled who entered, according to the newspaper.[2]The newspaper reports that the PSP investigation into the two men had been running since the start of 2026.[2]
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PSP display of the seized packages of heroin, hashish and liamba, cash, two Glock magazines, ammunition and a signal-jamming device laid out on a table. Photo: PSPPhoto details
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The seized hashish and liamba are given only in doses, with no weight in grams or kilograms, so no cannabis kilogram figure can be recorded.
The street value of more than 2 million euros refers to all the drugs seized, including the heroin and cocaine, not to the cannabis alone.
The two men were not named, and police did not say where on the south bank of the Tagus they lived.
No charging decision, coercive measure or court outcome after the first judicial interview was reported.
The text gives a weight ("23 kilograms") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
Folha Nacional credits Correio da Manhã as its source, so it is not an independent account and repeats that outlet's wording.
The order of the police operation is not clear: a search that had run since the start of 2026 and the detentions of two men living on the Margem Sul are described only briefly.
Whether a judge imposed coercive measures after the Wednesday interview is not reported here.
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.
