{"id":46020,"date":"2016-04-05T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=46020"},"modified":"2016-04-05T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T19:32:07","slug":"sri-lankan-narcotics-kingpin-triad-comprising-muas-mohammed-sundarage-sumudu-tharanga-and-bandara-anil-rohan-arrested-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=46020","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Narcotics   Kingpin Triad Comprising Muas Mohammed,   Sundarage Sumudu Tharanga and Bandara Anil Rohan Arrested by Police."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Madura Ranwala<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB) yesterday arrested three Sri Lankan heroin kingpins in connection with the latest and biggest ever haul of heroin detected in the southern sea in a joint operation with Sri Lanka Navy last Wednesday and brought ashore on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The narcotics weighed 110 kilos and 14 foreign drug smugglers were earlier taken into custody with a multi-day fishing craft used to smuggle the contraband. Navy spokesman Captain Akram Alavi initially told media on Friday the heroin detected weighed 101 kilos.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekara said that the main drug lord involved in distributing heroin in the country had been arrested by the officers of Emigration and Immigration at the Bandaranaike International Airport around 12.15 a.m. yesterday when he arrived in the country from India.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He has been identified as Muas Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>The other two heroin kingpin had surrendered to the PNB following the arrest of Muas yesterday morning through their counsel, the ASP said. They were identified as Sundarage Sumudu Tharanga (38) of Negombo and Bandara Anil Rohan (39) of Negombo.<\/p>\n<p>The heroin racket had been carried out in three countries, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Navy spokesman told The Island on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The detection came into effect following information elicited from drug smugglers arrested earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The PNB officers are grilling 17 suspects including 14 foreigners arrested on March 30.<\/p>\n<p>The local drug kingpins had regularly transported heroin consignment to Colombo via the southern expressway, police said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton46020\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D46020&amp;text=Sri%20Lankan%20Narcotics%20%20%20Kingpin%20Triad%20Comprising%20Muas%20Mohammed%2C%20%20%20Sundarage%20Sumudu%20Tharanga%20and%20Bandara%20Anil...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Madura Ranwala The Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB) yesterday arrested three Sri Lankan heroin kingpins in connection with the latest and biggest ever haul of heroin detected in the southern sea in a joint operation with Sri Lanka Navy last Wednesday and brought ashore on Friday. 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