{"id":105220,"date":"2020-08-03T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105220"},"modified":"2020-08-03T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T23:16:15","slug":"cat-jailed-for-smuggling-heroin-escapes-sri-lankan-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/03\/cat-jailed-for-smuggling-heroin-escapes-sri-lankan-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Jailed For Smuggling Heroin Escapes Sri Lankan Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy UNILAD<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cat-Prison-Heroin.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Jailed For Smuggling Heroin Escapes Sri Lankan Prison\" class=\"wp-image-823026\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No prison can hold this heroin-smuggling cat. After a short stint behind bars, the feline has escaped.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, August 1, an unnamed cat was caught by jail officials and detained in the high-security Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wasn\u2019t an innocent house pet out exploring its surroundings \u2013 wrapped around the cat\u2019s neck, nearly two grams of heroin, two SIM cards and a memory chip were found in a small plastic bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/116791506_331874654884596_2497344535441107240_n.jpg\" alt=\"Heroin Prison Cat\" class=\"wp-image-823021\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Regretfully, this is only one of a number of instances of contraband and drugs being transported near the prison. Over the past few weeks, there\u2019s been a reported increase in items being thrown over the walls, whether it be small packets of drugs or mobile phones and chargers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8587679\/Cat-jailed-heroin-neck-ESCAPES-prison-Colomno.html?fbclid=IwAR1XSEC7JxHqhnIi1NJ3LKpsZRJNgGMf4UUJjDtIRskfRWfRWQl9Z22fdCw\" target=\"_blank\"><em>MailOnline<\/em><\/a>, the detained cat made its escape from a prison room it was being kept in on Sunday, August 2. There\u2019s been no further comment from the prison regarding the escapee smuggler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country is currently amid the storm of a major drugs problem; according to local media reports, a number of narcotics detectives have been implicated in selling illegal substances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/116799220_416441469330114_4061534049154808322_n.jpg\" alt=\"Heroin Prison Cat\" class=\"wp-image-823023\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At a recent gathering, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa insisted that the country would one day be \u2018free from drugs [the] same way as it was freed from terrorism\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, in addition to last weekend\u2019s cat, Athurugiriya Police were forced to seize an eagle that had allegedly been used for drug trafficking by associates of the late underworld kingpin Angoda Lokka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The white-bellied sea eagle \u2013 said to be capable of carrying around 15kg in weight \u2013 has since been handed over to Dehiwala National Zoo on a court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy UNILAD No prison can hold this heroin-smuggling cat. After a short stint behind bars, the feline has escaped.&nbsp; On Saturday, August 1, an unnamed cat was caught by jail officials and detained in the high-security Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This wasn\u2019t an innocent house pet out exploring its surroundings \u2013 wrapped around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}