The 22-year-old woman told officers her partner had attacked her and stopped her leaving the property where the couple was staying.[1] The COI, the Intelligent Operations Centre of the Guarda Civil Municipal (GCM), the municipal guard force, sent patrols responding in the Vila do Povo neighbourhood on the morning of Thursday 6 November 2026.[1]

While registering the incident at the property, the officers found a pot holding one cannabis plant and portions of the drug.[1] The Portuguese-language version of the same report describes the find as a vase with a cannabis plant and portions of the drug.[2] The seized drug and the people involved were taken to the Civil Police duty station.[1] The Portuguese version states the drug and those involved were taken to the plantão, the duty station of the Civil Police.[2]