Police seize heroin, ICE from guesthouse: mastermind operates from prison cell

By Norman Palhawadana

Acting on a tip-off, the police Organised Crime Unit yesterday (16) raided a guesthouse at the Gam Sabha junction, Nugegoda and seized a consignment of ICE and heroin weighing five kilos each.

 The police arrested the manager of the guesthouse.

Under interrogation, the suspect revealed that the parcels containing drugs had been handed over to him by an unknown party.

However, the police said they were looking for two persons who managed the guesthouse as a partnership.

A senior officer said the consignment of drugs had a street value of Rs.100 mn.

The manager of the restaurant is a resident of Kandy and had started working there only a few months back.

 According to an investigator, a police constable, too, had been involved in the racket and the mastermind behind the operation is a drug dealer serving a prison term at the Welikada prison.

The officer said the arrest of the constable was imminent.

He said the guest house had been used as a distribution point for drugs.