The Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a suspect in the Wariyapola area with heroin and cash amounting to Rs. 384, 000 suspected to have been obtained through heroin trafficking.
STF personnel arrested the 24-year-old suspect from the Minuwangate area with 85.2 grams of heroin, tools used to store the drugs and cash amounting to Rs. 384, 000.
The STF also arrested a 32-year-old woman, also in the Minuwangate area, with 16.4 grams of heroin and tools used to store the drugs. Additionally, a 51-year-old suspect was arrested from Wariyapola town on charges of trafficking heroin. He had 6. 7 grams of heroin in his possession at the time of his arrest.
All three suspects have been handed over to the Wariyapola Police for further investigations.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
Cabinet has approved the appointment of Commodore (retired) M.B.N.A. Premaratne of the Sri Lanka Navy, as the new Commissioner General of Excise.
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