6 July 2020 12:04 am
A gangster known as ‘Battaramulle Bunty’ who is an accomplice of underworld figure ‘Angoda Lokka’, had been arrested in Thalangama last morning.
Police said the suspect was arrested at a house and the police also recovered 6.4 grams of heroin, a car and Rs.52,470 in cash from the suspect’s possession.
Earlier, the Police Special Task Force (STF) arrested 28-year-old ‘Bunty’ in connection with the attack on the prison bus in Kalutara in which five prisoners including the underworld gangster called Samayan and two Prisons officers were killed, when the Black Maria came under gunfire when it was transporting prisoners to the Kaduwela Magistrate’s Court in 2017.