2,000 kg of hashish seized from cement truck near Tavira
Portuguese and Spanish police seized about 2,000 kg of hashish near Tavira on 8 November 2014 after following a cement truck across the Guadiana bridge from Spain. Five men were detained as officers raided the property where the drugs were being unloaded.
Portugal’s Judicial Police, working with Spain’s UDYCO drugs unit and National Police after a two-month joint investigation, detained five men and seized about 2,000 kilos of hashish and two vehicles on 8 November 2014.[1]
Officers followed a large cement truck that crossed the International Bridge over the Rio Guadiana toward Tavira to Cumenda, where the drugs were hidden in a property owned by an absent foreigner.[1]Police moved in as the hashish was being loaded onto the vehicle and arrested all five people involved.[1]
The detainees, aged 30 to 58, included Romanian, Dutch and Spanish nationals, and they appeared in court on an application to be remanded in custody.[1]The property owner was believed possibly unaware that drugs were stashed on his land.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
5
Cannabis
2 t
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Route
Spain → Portugal via Guadiana International Bridge
Only the Safe Communities Portugal account was opened; a wider AP report of 15 arrests and 2,140 kilos in the same Spain-Portugal operation was found but could not be opened.
Whether the detained men were remanded in custody after their court appearance was not reported.
A separate 20-tonne fishing-vessel seizure in operation Adiada later in November 2014 is a different event left out here.
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Four foreign nationals aged 16 to 43 were arrested at Porto das Barcas, São Teotónio, after police intercepted about 1.1 tonnes of hashish pollen moved by fast boat. The joint PJ-GNR Operation Barcas also seized a car with false plates, surveillance cameras and communications gear in house searches.
On 26 October 2026 the Northern Directorate of the Polícia Judiciária arrested a 38-year-old man with no record at a warehouse in Vila Nova de Famalicão and seized about 100 kg of hashish, a large-calibre pistol, a ballistic vest and 16,000 euros. The case began with two postal parcels of cannabis resin from northern Europe.
Portugal's PSP detained seven people and seized 5.8 tonnes of hashish, nine firearms, 580,000 euros in cash and eight boats in an operation around greater Lisbon. A Lisbon court ordered all seven held in preventive detention on 20 October 2025.
