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Drug war: Navy detects 5.5 kg of heroin in northern seas; Police make more arrests in Colombo
View(s):Law enforcement authorities continued to make significant detections of heroin with a large haul of the drug being discovered this week off the northern coast. Â On Friday, Coast Guard personnel who were on patrol on board the ‘CG 41″ of the northern naval command, seized 5.5 kilograms (kg) of heroin floating10 nautical miles off Kankesanthurai.
Heroin seized in one of the detections in Colombo
The navy said that the 5.5kg of heroin found in a bag in five packages, was handed over to the Kankesanthurai Police for further investigations. A similar incident was reported on May 12 this year, when the navy recovered 9.3kg of heroin in the same area of the sea.
In another breakthrough on Friday, four suspects, including two women, were taken into custody in Colombo for the possession of heroin. The arrests were made from Kotahena, Piliyandala, Welikada and Modera.
The biggest heroin detection was at Armour Street in Kotahena when officers from the Western Province Anti-Vice Squad acting on a tip-off arrested a 34-year-old suspect with 1.272kg of heroin. The suspect was from Grandpass. Meanwhile, a 40-year-old woman from Borella was taken into custody with 567.23g of heroin in Piliyandala.
In two other instances Welikada police arrested a 25-year-old man from Rajagiriya with 2.9g of heroin and a 26-year-old woman from Mattakkuliya was nabbed in Modera with 10g of heroin.