{"id":79799,"date":"2018-08-01T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79799"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T23:29:06","slug":"stf-arrests-sarath-fonsekas-associate-with-heroin-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/08\/01\/stf-arrests-sarath-fonsekas-associate-with-heroin-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"STF arrests Sarath Fonseka\u2019s associate with heroin, \u2018ice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Norman Palihawadana and Hemantha Randunu\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>August 1, 2018, 11:52 pm<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police commandos arrested a heroin dealer believed to be a close associate of Wildlife Minister and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka during a raid carried out in the Minuwangoda police area in the early hours of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The STF recovered eight grammes of heroin and two grammes of a banned substance known as \u2018ice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A senior police official identified the arrested person as Aruna Shantha Attanayake alias \u2018police.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The police commandos apprehended the wanted man allegedly involved in heroin distribution in the Peliyagoda area in the wake of Minister Fonseka raising a privilege issue over a spate of media reports alleging that he associated with some underworld elements.<\/p>\n<p>The STF said that the arrested person had been involved in several shooting incidents in the Peliyagoda area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Norman Palihawadana and Hemantha Randunu\u00a0Courtesy The Island August 1, 2018, 11:52 pm\u00a0 Police commandos arrested a heroin dealer believed to be a close associate of Wildlife Minister and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka during a raid carried out in the Minuwangoda police area in the early hours of yesterday. The STF recovered eight grammes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79799","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=79799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}