Prison visitor nabbed with heroin concealed in food parcel

Kalutara North Traffic Police OIC Inspector Harsha Kumara told the Daily News that a person who had gone to visit a remand prisoner at the Kalutara Remand Prison on Monday (16) was arrested for having carefully hidden heroin inside a parcel of kiribath he had brought for the prisoner.

A woman officer who was on duty at the Prison Main Gate detected the narcotic hidden in 29 tiny packets which were placed in a box of a medicinal cream, Police said.

The suspect, aged 23, is a resident of Wekada, Panadura.

He was due to be produced before the Kalutara Magistrate on Tuesday (17).

Kaluara North Traffic Police are carrying out further investigations.

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