R’pura drug racket

20 August 2010 06:52 am

By Lasantha Niroshan


Police have cracked a drug racket in Ratnapura with the arrest of four suspects including a drugs king-pin in the area. Among the suspects arrested were two women who had  30 packets of heroin in their possession at the time of arrest.

Inquiries revealed that the two women had been involved in racket over a period of time and had obtained the assistance of two men.

A police team under HQI Ratnapura Senaka Weerasinghe carried out the raid and arrested the suspects. (Daily Mirror online)