INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A search operation conducted by the Navy and Police Special Task Force (STF) has led to the arrest of a suspect with around 600,000 capsules
of a prescription drug, commonly abused for intoxication, which were being transferred to sell.The coordinated operation, which also
resulted in the seizure of a lorry used to peddle the drugs, was mounted in the Borella area on Wednesday (09), the navy said.Based on
having searched a suspicious lorry in the Borella area, these stock of prescription drugs were recovered from the possession of the suspect
Accordingly, the suspect together with drugs and the lorry were taken into custody, the navy said.The suspect held in this operation was
Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB), Colombo for onward legal action, it said.
