Sharp-eyed GNR officers from Tavira stumbled upon a massive hashish shipment of over 2,000 kilos.
Enough hash for 10 million joints was seized and seven men were arrested on Sunday evening near the sleepy Algarve resort of Santa Luzia.
The drug shipment was divided into about forty bales concealed in two vessels moored in the Ria de Santa Luzia near Tavira.
On Sunday at dusk a GNR patrol spotted "the presence of several unknown individuals near a tourist village near Santa Luzia."
After approaching three men to identify them the patrol decided that the men had no real reason for being where they were and decided they were acting somewhat suspiciously. The police eventually were told by the men that they had been asked to unload some unknown goods from a boat to a vehicle onshore.
The men were wet up to their knees and one of them had the keys to a vessel.
The GNR located two moored vessels and discovered about forty bales of drugs concealed "in various compartments, totaling 2,044 kilos of hashish."
In addition to the four individuals, the GNR detained three more who turned up to meet the first group. The boats were seized too, both about seven meters long with cabins and with a 150hp and a 225HP engines.
