{"id":152861,"date":"2025-11-05T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152861"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:10:54","slug":"npp-members-husband-arrested-with-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/05\/npp-members-husband-arrested-with-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP member\u2019s husband arrested with drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202511\/1762357041_4947218_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"NPP+member%E2%80%99s+husband+arrested+with+drugs\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting on information received by the Anuradhapura Police Division Crime Investigation Unit, a raid conducted in the Eppawala area resulted in the arrest of a school principal from a main school in the Eppawala area and one other individual. They were arrested with 1 kilogram and 20 grams of heroin that was hidden in a hotel in the Eppawala-Andagala area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is reported that the wife of the arrested principal is a National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) member of a local government body in the Peliyagoda area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said the suspects are residents of the same area, aged 54 and 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These suspects were engaged in this drug trafficking operation for a long time. Further investigations into the matter are being conducted by the Anuradhapura Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Acting on information received by the Anuradhapura Police Division Crime Investigation Unit, a raid conducted in the Eppawala area resulted in the arrest of a school principal from a main school in the Eppawala area and one other individual. They were arrested with 1 kilogram and 20 grams of heroin that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861","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=152861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152862,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861\/revisions\/152862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}