The Homicide and Organised Crimes Division (HOCD) has recovered a foreign-made pistol buried on an abandoned land situated at a house in Nugegoda based on information revealed by a murder suspect recently extradited from Dubai.
Police said the suspect, who was wanted in connection with the shooting death of an individual in 2019, had fled to Dubai and had been hiding in the country. Law enforcement authorities in Sri Lanka had obtained a Red Notice against the suspect. Accordingly, Dubai authorities had arrested him. A team from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had traveled to Dubai on July 12 and brought the suspect back to Sri Lanka. He is currently being held on a 90-day detention order and interrogated.
Based on information revealed by the suspect, officers from the CID's HOCD had yesterday gone to the abandoned land in Nugegoda where a house was also situated, where they recovered the pistol buried on the land and wrapped carefully in polythene and placed inside a plastic bottle.
The suspect is a 48-year-old resident of Nugegoda. The HOCD is conducting further investigations.
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