Heroin trafficker caught

Fred Silva JINASENA- Telwatte Group Corr

A former civilian labourer attached to the Ambalangoda Police station engaged in trafficking heroin, hiding packets of the drug in his possession was arrested by Ambulangoda Police last week.

Police said on interrogation, he has revealed that he had earlier served a joint term in connection with an alleged murder. In prison, where he was known among inmates as ‘Bossa’ alias ‘Rathu’, he had met a drug kin-pin named ‘Chuti’ and befriended him.

After the two were discharged from prison, ‘Chuti’ from Mt Lavinia induced him to engage in drug trafficking by supplying the drug in bulk. Police said while in police detention, the suspect refused to take food given to him and he was referred for a medical examination to the Balapitiya Base Hospital. Doctors who examined him had detected drugs from his stomach and on questioning the suspect confessed to having hidden several packets of drugs in his possession.

The suspect passed out 400 grams of heroin in packeted form. The suspect was later produced before Balapitiya Magistrate Asanka Bodaragama and remanded till August 27. Investigations are continuing by a team led by Inspector Niroshan Rupasinghe and directed by Elpitiya SP Vidya Pathirana.