Five arrested in Porto drug sweep with hashish seized
Porto PSP officers detained five men aged 25 to 47 in Pasteleira, Cerco and São Tomé on 28 August 2024 on suspicion of drug trafficking. Police reported 461 and 32 hashish doses plus 35 cannabis-herb doses alongside cocaine, heroin and over 18,700 euros in cash, with the detainees to face judicial authorities.
🇵🇹 Bairros da Pasteleira, Cerco and São Tomé, Porto · Portugal
Officers of the PSP’s Porto Metropolitan Command detained five men in Porto on
Wednesday on suspicion of drug trafficking.[1]The detainees were men aged 25
to 47.[1]Four were detained in Bairro da Pasteleira and one in Bairro do
Cerco, neighbourhoods in Porto.[1]The five detainees were to be brought
before the judicial authorities for the application of coercive measures.[1]
Police presented the main seizure as almost 2,500 doses of heroin, cocaine and
hashish together with more than 18,000 euros in cash.[1]In detail, police
reported seizing 1,863 doses of cocaine, 101 doses of heroin and 461 doses of
haxixe, or hashish, a cannabis resin, along with 18,226 euros in cash from the
detainees.[1]In a separate seizure on a public road in Bairro de São Tomé,
officers seized another 32 doses of haxixe and 35 doses of liamba, a term for
cannabis herb, as well as 530 euros in cash.[1]
The PSP described the São Tomé seizure as occurring during a crime-visibility
and prevention operation to combat the direct sale of narcotics.[1]The Porto
Metropolitan Command announced the detentions and seizures in a statement.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article says the detentions occurred on Wednesday and was published on 29 August 2024, so 28 August 2024 is used as the incident date.
No weight for the cannabis was published, only 461 doses of haxixe from the detainees plus 32 doses of haxixe and 35 doses of liamba in São Tomé, so no kilograms can be recorded.
Cocaine, heroin and cash amounts are mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and are excluded from cannabis figures.
No charges or court outcome beyond presentation to the judicial authorities for coercive measures were reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Portuguese; no agency statement or second outlet account could be opened.
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.
