{"id":3611,"date":"2018-08-02T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2018-08-02T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:12:10","slug":"stf-arrests-sarath-fonsekas-associate-with-heroin-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/stf-arrests-sarath-fonsekas-associate-with-heroin-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"STF arrests Sarath Fonseka\u2019s associate with heroin, \u2018ice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">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 style=\"text-align: justify\">The STF recovered eight grammes of heroin and two grammes of a banned substance known as \u2018ice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A senior police official identified the arrested person as Aruna Shantha Attanayake alias \u2018police.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">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 style=\"text-align: justify\">The STF said that the arrested person had been involved in several shooting incidents in the Peliyagoda area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: The Island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police commandos arrested a heroin dealer believed to be a close associate of Wildlife&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}