17 held as PSP dismantles drug network near Porto university
Porto's PSP detained 17 people on 27 May 2024 in raids around the Asprela university area, dismantling a trafficking network centred on Bairro de São Tomé. Officers reported seizing mainly hashish alongside other drugs, plus cash, firearms and blades, with no cannabis-only weight published.
Porto’s Polícia de Segurança Pública dismantled a trafficking network selling
drugs around the Asprela university area on Monday 27 May 2024.[1]Officers
detained 17 people, 15 men and two women aged between 20 and 52.[1]All those
detained lived in the city of Porto and were heard by the judicial authorities
on Tuesday 28 May.[1]An earlier police account given while the operation was
still under way put the detention count at 18.[2]
The operation involved 60 home searches and six non-home searches in the
Paranhos area, supported by rapid-intervention teams and the Special Police Unit
detachment.[1]Officers reported seizing more than 30 kg of drugs including
hashish, liamba and amphetamines, alongside firearms and more than 58,000 euros
in cash.[1]Police described the haul as more than 64,000 individual doses,
mainly hashish, while liamba, amphetamines such as ecstasy, cocaine and heroin
were also sold.[1]Officers also seized58,214 euros in banknotes, seven
bladed weapons, seven firearms and ammunition, plus other drug-dealing
paraphernalia.[1]A same-day police account described the seizure as a
significant quantity of drugs, fundamentally hashish, plus some synthetic drugs.[2]
Police identified Bairro de São Tomé as the business epicentre, close to
faculties including the Porto Engineering Institute and the Faculty of
Psychology and Education Sciences.[1]The Jornal de Notícias, cited in the
report, described university students as the main clients.[1]The
investigation had lasted three years and extended to searches in Agra do Amial,
Carriçal and Regado.[1]
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Seized drugs laid out after the operation. Photo: Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP).Photo details
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No cannabis-only weight was published: the reported more than 30 kg and more than 64,000 doses mix hashish and liamba with amphetamines and other drugs, so no kilograms are recorded.
A same-day police account reported 18 detentions while the operation continued; the later account reports 17 detentions heard by the judicial authorities, and the report uses the later final figure.
No charges, custody measures or further court outcome beyond the 28 May judicial hearing were reported.
The reported 58,214 euros in seized cash and the firearms and blades are mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure; no cannabis-only valuation was published and no value is recorded.
Liamba is the Portuguese term for marijuana used in the source.
Only the PSP/police version via two outlets was opened; no separate agency statement or court record was found.
The text gives a weight ("30 kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
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.
