Diaspora member found with 16-year-old at Vavuniya lodge
Suspect, a British passport holder:
Police have arrested a 63-old British passport
holder, said to be a member of the diaspora, in the company of an
underage girl, at a lodge in Vavuniya. The suspect who had arrived
from London, had taken the 16-year-old girl, who is an orphan to the
lodge.
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Tsunami alarm device theft: five held
Gandara Police arrested five fishermen who stole
an antenna on the Indian coastline that had been installed to give
out tsunami warnings and weather forecasts. The suspects are
residents of Devinuwara. The stolen tsunami alarm device was
discovered following a raid on the Devinuwara fisheries harbour. The
tsunami alarm device had gone missing since March 24. The suspects
were produced before the Matara magistrate on Sunday.
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Rail carriage inspector turns heroin trafficker
Badulla Police seized Rs. 400,000 worth heroin
and arrested a rail carriage inspector who is alleged to have been
operating a drug peddling racket on the Badulla night mail over a
period of time. According to Police, the suspect is alleged to have
told the foreman at the Dematagoda station that a friend would be
delivering some radio equipment at Dematagoda and to despatch same
on the night mail to Badulla.
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Navy nabs fishermen engaged in illegal fishing
The Naval Vessel P 152 attached to SLNS Vijaya
of the North-western Naval Command on routine sea patrol arrested 18
persons engaged in illegal fishing using prohibited fishing gear
recently. The arrested persons along with two prohibited fishing
nets, two pairs of diving fins, two diving masks and five FGDs in
their possession were handed over to Kalpitiya Police for further
investigations.
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Job agent released on bail
The manager of a foreign employment agency who
was remanded for three months in connection with fraud, was released
on Rs 50,000 personal bail by the Kurunegala Acting Magistrate. The
suspect and his wife are charged with cheating two teenage girls by
collecting seven thousand rupees from them after promising them
employment in Lebanon and Italy. When the case was called before the
Kurunegala Acting Magistrate the Rambadagalla Police told court that
the complainants in the two cases were present in court but the
second suspect and his wife were absent.
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