Police uncover large-scale drug peddling around Kandy Courts, Pallekele Prison

On a tip-off received that persons who remain in the Court premises provide drugs as well as various illegal items to detainees who are brought from prisons to court for cases, the Police reported the matter to the Court and stayed on guard.

Accordingly, a team of officers of the Kandy Police Divisional Crimes Investigation sector took into custody a woman with five grams of drugs in her possession, together with another person.

The drugs had been discovered when a sudden search operation was carried out by the Police when this woman, a resident of Ratemulla Kandy, and another person who had come on a motorcycle, were in the car park.

When they were detained on detention orders issued by the Court for seven days and interrogated, it was revealed that there were prison guards of some prisons, who supported this racket.

Based on information received from them, a prison guard was taken into custody by the police, near the Clock Tower, Kandy, with five grams of heroin in his possession.

He had been arrested when he was preparing to board a bus to Pallekelle where he was on duty at the prison there and the police suspect that he is engaged in drug trafficking within the prison.

The police also said that the wife of a well-known drug dealer in Kandy who attempted to hand over to him a stock of hashish and a mobile phone, was also arrested.

She had Rs. 250,000 in her possession at the time of her arrest. The Police have managed to uncover a lot of information about a large-scale drug trade centered around the Pallekele Prison during the interrogation of the two of them while being held on detention orders.

An extensive investigation to arrest people involved in smuggling has been initiated by Chief Inspector Tilak Samaranayake, OIC, Divisional Crime Investigation Unit, on the instructions of Kandy Divisional Senior Superintendent of Police Chamil Ratnayake.

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