Swimming coach and six others arrested with drugs

2 January 2017 11:15 am

A swimming coach attached to a well-known girls’ school in Colombo and six others were yesterday arrested for the possession of drugs at a hotel in Mirissa, Weligama by the Police Narcotics Bureau in Matara.

Police recovered five grams of cocaine and three grams of hashish, when the suspects were arrested in a parked car in the hotel premises. The suspects were using the drugs when they were arrested, the police said.  (Krishan Jeewaka Jayaruk)