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Two individuals who were traveling by a three-wheeler in possession of two parcels containing Kerala Ganja have been arrested during a raid carried out on 19.01.2025 afternoon in the Wellampitiya Police area by the officers of the Organized Crime Prevention Unit of the Police Special Tasks Force and produced to the Police Station Wellampitiya.During the weighing, it was disclosed that the amount of Kerala Ganja arrested was 05 kg and 45 mg weight, and the two suspects, who are 31 and 33 years old, were identified as residents of the Wellampitiya area.Further investigations are being carried out by the Wellampitiya Police Station in this regard.

This morning, 19-01-2025, a 24-year-old person was shot to death by two motorcyclists at Siripala Mawatha, Mount Lavinia. Shortly after the shooting, the shooter out of the two suspects along with the 9mm firearm that has been used for the shooting was arrested by the police officers who were on duty in Kaudawa area of Dehiwala. During the attempt to inspect the motorcycle, the motorcyclist drove the motorbike continuously. The Police chased the motor bike and managed to stop it, and then the suspect attempted to shoot towards the officer .The suspect was subdued and arrested by the suspect. Facts have been revealed that he, who is 47-year-old, has been identified as a wanted suspect in a connection with a previously reported murder, and extensive investigations are being conducted to arrest the motorcycle and the motorcyclists.

Concurrent with the island-wide crime and drug prevention program of the Sri Lanka Police, which is being functioned as per the instructions of the Acting Inspector General of Police, a suspect with a pistol was arrested by the Wellampitiya Police Station on 11.01.2025, and further investigations were conducted having detained him under a detention order. Based on the information uncovered during the said investigation, another suspect, in possession of a T-56 firearm, a magazine and 18 live bullets, was arrested from Welikanda area on 14.01.2025 by a team of officers of the Organised Crime Investigation Unit of the Colombo Crime Division. Further investigations regarding the above suspect are being conducted by the Colombo Crime Division, having obtained a 90-day detention order, and based on the information extracted from him, it was revealed that another T-56 firearm had been sold for Rs. 200,000. Based on the information uncovered, a team of officers of the Organized Crime Investigation Unit of the Colombo Crime Division went to the Welioya area today, 18.01.2025, and arrested a suspect with a T-56 firearm, a magazine and 11 live bullets. The arrested suspect is a 47-year-old resident of the Kalingawila area in Welikanda, who runs a shop. The Colombo Crime Division is conducting further investigations into whether this firearm has been used for other crimes.

On the instructions of the Acting Inspector General of Police, a raid was conducted by the officers of the Police Narcotics Bureau’s Matara Sub-Unit in the Pokunuhena area of the Matara Police area in the early hours of today, 17.01.2025, in relation to the crime and drug prevention operation being carried out by the Sri Lanka Police throughout the island. Officers of the Matara sub-unit of the Police Narcotics Bureau conducted this raid and arrested a suspect with 08 grams of 900 milligrams of heroin, a 12-bore firearm made in Sri Lanka and 02 rounds of ammunition. The arrested suspect is a 37-year-old resident of Pokunuhena area. During the questioning of this suspect, based on the revealed information, a house in Wevahamanduwa area was checked and another suspect was arrested along with a T56 firearm, two rounds of ammunition and 60 rounds of ammunition hidden in that house. The suspect who was arrested is a 24-year-old resident of Vevahamanduwa area. During his interrogation, it has been revealed that this T56 firearm was given to him by the above first suspect to hide it. The two suspects have been handed over to the Matara Police Station along with the arrested items. Further Investigations are being carried out by Matara Police and Police Narcotics Bureau.

A suspect who was traveling by a cab possessing 18 gram of “Ice” was arrested during the raid conducted in the Kiriwaula-Thorayaya area of the Dambulla-Kurunegala road by the police officers of the Kandy Sub-Unit of the Police Narcotics Bureau on 16.01.2025 in relation to the anti-drug crime operations implemented islandwide by the Sri Lanka Police upon the instructions given by the acting Inspector General of Police. The suspect arrested is 39 years of age and a resident of Hangamuwa in Bogamuwa Police area. An amount of money with the value of twenty-three million five hundred thousand rupees (Rs. 23,500,000/-), which was suspected to be earned by trafficking heroin, and about 70 pieces of different colored stones suspected to be gemstones were found in a bag under the driver’s seat of the cab in which the suspect was traveling. Further, based on the information disclosed during the interrogation of the suspect, an amount of two hundred fifty-nine million eight hundred thousand rupees (Rs. 259,800,000/-) suspected to be earned by heroin trafficking was found in a safe in the house located in the Hangamuwa area where the suspect resides, and a van belonging to the suspect that was parked in the said house was taken into custody by the police. It has been disclosed in the investigation that this suspect is involved in drug trafficking, which was masterminded by a close relation of the suspect who is an organized criminal and also a drug trafficker currently hiding in Dubai. The said amount more than of two hundred eighty million rupees seized by the police during the said raid is to be the highest amount of money recovered during a raid. The Police Narcotics Bureau is conducting further investigations in this regard..

In keeping with the island-wide crime and drug prevention operation conducted on the instructions of the acting Inspector General of Police, officers of Nawagamuwa Police Station stopped and searched a person who had arrived in a three-wheeler in the Korathota area of the Nawagamauwa Police Division and apprehended approximately 04 kilograms of the narcotic ice and 500 grams of heroin from the suspect’s possession. The arrested suspect is a 37-year-old resident of the Korathota area. The Nawagamuwa Police are conducting further investigations.

The Kantale Police Station and the Crime Investigation Bureau of Kantale Division have initiated investigations on burgling a house and looting gold jewelry worth over Rs. 6.2 million and cash worth Rs. 267,000/= in the Kantale Police area on the night of 04.01.2025, and have arrested four suspects. Two suspects were arrested in the Katugastota area on 11.01.2025, and based on the facts revealed during further investigation regarding those two suspects, two more suspects were taken into custody in Gampola and Sampur areas. Accordingly, a portion of the stolen gold jewelry and the car used to commit the crime and to flee have also been taken into custody by the Crime Investigation Bureau of Kantale Division. The arrested suspects are residents of Sampur, Kiliveddy, and Gampola areas, aged between 23 and 41 years. The Kantale Police Station and the Divisional Crime Investigation Bureau are conducting further investigations.

At around 06.00 a.m. on 09.01.2025, a shooting incident occurred near the Ahungalla sacred Bo Tree, and a person who was in a three-wheeler parked at the place, got injured and was admitted to the Balapitiya Hospital. It was revealed through the preliminary investigation that the shooting had been carried out by two people riding a scooter. The officers of the Police Special Task Force have recovered the relevant scooter from the Cinnamon Estate of Denagoda. Further investigation revealed that the criminals had arrived riding the motorcycle with fake number plates and that it belonged to a person from the Balapitiya area. It was also revealed that the motorcycle had been stolen from a place near Siddhartha College, Balapitiya, on 24.09.2024. Police investigations are underway to arrest the criminals.

One of the suspects of the team that shot five people with a T-56 firearm and fled at the dawn of 04.01.2025, on Maha Neviya Road, Weligama, was arrested by officers of the Matara Divisional Criminal Investigation Bureau on the evening of 09.01.2025. It has been revealed that the 29-year-old suspect, who is a resident of Beliatta, was the driver of the motorcar used for getting away after the shooting. After further interrogation, the motorcar used for the shooting was also taken into custody on the evening of the same day by the police officers conducting the investigation. Investigation officers were also able to apprehend a 24-year-old suspect who arrived on a motorcycle for the shooting on 04.01.2025 along with the motorcycle. A female suspect had also been arrested earlier for aiding and abetting. A 26-year-old man was killed in the shooting that day, while a 29-year-old man was injured and admitted to the hospital. Extensive investigations are being conducted to arrest other suspects in connection with the crime.

The officers of Wattegama Police Station arrested two more suspects on 08.01.2025 in relation to the crime in which a fish businessman was killed that was reported from Atalahagoda area on 04.01.2025.   The suspects who committed the murder, a 25-year-old resident of Karandeniya area and a 37-year-old resident of Khuhettimulla area, were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and criminal intimidation. A 39-year-old fish businessman residing in Atalahagoda, Wattegama area, who was seriously injured in an attack by several people with a sharp weapon, died on 01.04.2025 at around 03.25 in the morning at the Kandy intensive care unit and Officers of Wattegama Police Station arrested a 38-year-old suspect in Wattegama area on 05.01.2025 on charges of murder and conspiracy and further investigations are being carried out in this regard.  Investigations are underway to arrest other suspects as well.