{"id":871,"date":"2026-05-06T05:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=871"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:02:52","slug":"associate-of-overseas-fugitive-arrested-with-ammunition-in-katunayake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/06\/associate-of-overseas-fugitive-arrested-with-ammunition-in-katunayake\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate of Overseas Fugitive Arrested with Ammunition in Katunayake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A close associate of an organized criminal believed to be hiding overseas has been arrested with a cache of ammunition in the Katunayake area.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was apprehended during a raid conducted early this morning (06) by officers attached to the Special Task Force camp in the Heenatiyana area, within the Katunayake Police Division.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered 54 T-56 type rounds of ammunition along with a magazine from the suspect at the time of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The individual, identified as a 25-year-old resident of Minuwangoda, Heenatiyana, has been handed over to the Katunayake Police Station for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary inquiries have revealed that the seized ammunition and magazine are believed to belong to an organized criminal currently evading authorities abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Katunayake Police have launched further investigations into the incident to uncover additional links and details related to the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close associate of an organized criminal believed to be hiding overseas has been arrested with a cache of ammunition in the Katunayake area. The suspect was apprehended during a raid conducted early this morning (06) by officers attached to the Special Task Force camp in the Heenatiyana area, within the Katunayake Police Division. Police &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","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\/871","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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}