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Officers from the Nawalapitiya Police launched the operation after receiving intelligence that the suspect had been hiding in the Palleagama area. The suspect, a resident of Padukka, allegedly engaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1],"tags":[396,236,238,393,394,395,72,73,190],"tmauthors":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-3036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-news","9":"tag-dematagodasaminda","10":"tag-drugarrest","11":"tag-drugtrafficking","12":"tag-icedrug","13":"tag-methamphetamine","14":"tag-nawalapitiya","15":"tag-newshouse","16":"tag-newshouse-lk","17":"tag-police-investigation"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nawalapitiya: Associate of \u201cDematagoda Saminda\u201d Arrested<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police in Nawalapitiya arrested 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