On 10th March 2014 at 16:00 PSP Portimão arrested a person aged 25 years for trafficking in narcotics, in the city of Portimão.

About a month ago the PSP became aware of an outbreak of drug trafficking in a residential area of the city. PSP investigated this and mounted an operation in order to intercept the suspect in the act of selling the drugs.

When the suspect was stopped and searched a total of 19 individual doses of heroin, 2 single doses of cocaine, 2 mobile phones and €52.55  in cash were seized whereupon the person was arrested.

The suspect was detained and will appear in court on 11th March.