81-year-old woman among two held for hashish trafficking in Porto
Porto PSP officers detained a 31-year-old man and an 81-year-old woman in Bairro de São Tomé on suspicion of organised drug trafficking. Police seized over 2 kg of hashish pollen plus cannabis herb, cocaine, cash and trafficking paraphernalia.
Porto PSP officers detained a 31-year-old man and an 81-year-old woman late on
Friday 8 July 2016 in an operation in Bairro de São Tomé in Porto.[1]Both
were held on suspicion of drug trafficking.[1]Police said the two were
engaged in organised drug trafficking in the São Tomé neighbourhood.[2]The
PSP metropolitan command in Porto said the 31-year-old was unemployed, the
81-year-old was retired, both lived in Porto and were related.[2]
Officers seized more than two kilograms of hashish pollen, which police said was
enough for more than 10,200 individual doses.[1]The operation, carried out at
about 21:30 on Friday evening, also yielded cannabis herb (liamba) enough for
about 556 individual doses.[2]Police also seized seven doses of cocaine, 308
euros, a precision scale, untaxed tobacco packs, a mobile phone and other
material used in direct drug sales.[1]
The two detainees were to be brought before the court so that coercive measures
could be decided.[1]The PSP statement said they would first be presented to
the Public Prosecution Service.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only dose counts, not weights, were published for the 556 cannabis-herb doses and the 7 cocaine doses, so no separate kilograms can be recorded for them.
The hashish amount is reported only as more than two kilograms, so 2 kg is used as the minimum supported cannabis weight.
Both outlets reproduce the same Porto PSP statement, so they are not fully independent accounts.
No court outcome or coercive measures beyond presentation to the judicial authorities were reported.
Police in Porto arrested a 31-year-old man suspected of drug trafficking and possession of a prohibited weapon, seizing more than 10 kilograms of hashish and a loaded 7.65 mm pistol. The arrest followed an investigation opened in March into a suspected drug-selling point in the Campanhã area, and the man was remanded in preventive detention after his first judicial interrogation.
A 28-year-old visitor was arrested at Porto Prison after allegedly swapping his trainers, hiding more than 100 grams of cannabis resin and cocaine, with an inmate during a visit. The drugs were seized and he was due before a judge, with no separate cannabis weight or outcome reported.
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.
