PSP dismantles drug trafficking network that operated in Lisbon Metropolitan Area – Observer
The PSP seized 72 kilograms of hashish and detained six people suspected of belonging to a drug trafficking network that operated in several municipalities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, a police source told Lusa this Thursday.
According to Lusa, sub-commissioner Tiago Costa, from the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the PSP (Cometlis), three of the six detainees considered subject to preventive detention coercion measure and the rest with periodic presentations to the authorities.
This operation resulted from an investigation that had already been going on since 2018 and to dismantle a network that brought drugs from the south of Spain and that supplied several municipalities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, such as Mafra, Cascais, Loures, Odivelas and the city of Lisbon itself”, indicated Tiago Costa.
The PSP deputy commissioner explained that the operation that led to the dismantling of this network began with a interception of a drug transport in the Montijo area and culminated in eight searches, seven of them at home.
In the wake of these searches, the authorities seized 72 kilograms of hashish, 90 grams of cocaine, weapons and ammunition.
“All the targets that were located within the scope of this investigation were detained”, underlined Tiago Costa.
This operation was carried out by the Criminal Investigation Division of the PSP in Lisbon.