Author name: Tharindu Withanage

A 27-year-old individual was arrested for keeping in possession of 13 kg and 372 g of heroin and 3 kg and 580 g of ice in a house in the Kotikawatta area of Wellampitiya on 26.04.2025 by the police officers in Malambe Police Station. The raid was conducted upon a piece of information disclosed and the suspect has been identified as a resident of Korathota in Kaduwela area. Further investigations have been initiated by the Wellampitiya Police Station to disclose information regarding the suspect and the drug trafficking network connected to him.

In recent times, there have been a number of CCTV footages in circulation of how suspects were coming to commit various crimes, including shootings and murders, reported from various parts of the country, wearing helmets to hide their identities. Wearing a helmet is only necessary when riding a motorcycle and that is to prevent fatal injuries to one’s head during an accident. If a person is wearing a helmet without riding a motorcycle, and behaving suspiciously, the Police Headquarters has instructed all police officers to take immediate action to check the relevant person.  

A suspect has been arrested for obtaining pornographic images of boys through social media and producing pornographic images of a local boy. The US government’s National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has provided information to the Sri Lanka Police’s Child and Women Abuse Prevention Bureau in this regard.  Accordingly, on 20.04.2025, a team of officers from the Children and Women’s Bureau conducted investigations and arrested the suspect in the Anamaduwa area.  He is a 34-year-old resident of Anamaduwa, Aandigama, who runs a mobile phone repair shop.   It has been revealed that this suspect has been collecting and viewing pornographic videos and photos of foreign children engaging in sexual activities online since 2022, and has also worked to produce nude videos and related photos of a 13-year-old Sri Lankan child. The Child and Women Abuse Prevention and Investigation Bureau is continuing its investigations into the suspect. 

A team of officers from the Borella Police Station, who were on crime prevention and anti-vice duties, checked two individuals on a motorcycle near the Borella Lake Drive Road on the night of 22.04.2025. One of the individuals was found to be in possession of 55 grams and 300 milligrams of the Ice narcotic, and while checking the luggage, the officers found 06 numbers of 09 mm bullets, two motorcycle helmets with black coloured visors, a forged identity card, and a forged driving licence. When the other individual was checked, there were also 15 grams and 900 milligrams of Ice narcotic in his possession, and upon further investigation, it was revealed that the motorcycle was also bearing fake number plates. According to information revealed during interrogation, since it was revealed that these two suspects, aged 22 and 28, who are residents of the Wellawatte and Borella areas, have planned to commit a serious crime on the instructions of an organised criminal residing abroad, they are to be produced before the Maligakanda Magistrates’ Court, and further investigations are to be done after obtaining detention orders.  

A letter prepared in English under the title “CONVICTION”, bearing the name of the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Priyantha Weerasooriya, and a forged signature, is currently circulating on social media. It is observed that the facts stated in this article have been presented using incoherent words without any legal basis and have been prepared inserting images, in the background, that resemble the State Emblem of Sri Lanka, the seal of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, and the crest of the Sri Lanka Police. “Cyber Crime Headquarters Colombo, Sri Lanka” has been mentioned as the institution through which this article has been forwarded, and an establishment by this name does not exist in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Police informs the public that the official positions or facts stated in this article have not been published by the Sri Lanka Police and that it presents false and distorted facts. It is also observed that this article has been deliberately and consciously prepared with the intention of discrediting the Sri Lanka Police and misleading the public. Accordingly, the Criminal Investigation Department has initiated investigations to take necessary legal action against those who were involved in spreading false information.