Navy holds a person with heroin

Sri Lanka Navy held a person with heroin at Palliyawasalapadu area in Kalpitiya on 10th August 2019.

Accordingly, a suspicious person who was riding a motor bike had been observed during a patrol carried out by the Northwest Naval Command. By further search the suspect was apprehended with 10mg of heroin and he was identified as a drug trafficker in Kottantivu area in Puttalam, aged 28.

He along with the heroin and motor bike were handed over to Udappuwa Police , for onward action