{"id":849,"date":"2026-05-05T07:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=849"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:29:56","slug":"21-year-old-youth-arrested-with-drugs-in-mattakkuliya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/05\/21-year-old-youth-arrested-with-drugs-in-mattakkuliya\/","title":{"rendered":"21-Year-Old Youth Arrested with Drugs in Mattakkuliya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old youth has been arrested in Mattakkuliya, Samithpura area with a stock of illegal drugs, according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made during a raid conducted by officers of the Western Province North Crime Division.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation, police recovered 77 grams of \u201cIce\u201d (crystal methamphetamine), 60 grams of heroin, and a sum of Rs. 508,100 suspected to have been earned through drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, a resident of Mattakkuliya in Colombo, has been identified as a 21-year-old male.<\/p>\n<p>Police stated that further investigations are currently underway to determine the network behind the drug distribution and related criminal activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old youth has been arrested in Mattakkuliya, Samithpura area with a stock of illegal drugs, according to police reports. The arrest was made during a raid conducted by officers of the Western Province North Crime Division. During the operation, police recovered 77 grams of \u201cIce\u201d (crystal methamphetamine), 60 grams of heroin, and a sum &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}