Police have seized seven locally manufactured firearms, more than 500 rounds of ammunition and two kilograms of heroin from a suspect at Webada in Weliweriya, NewsFirst reported on Tuesday morning.
The operation was run by the Western Province North Crimes Division.
What was recovered
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Locally made T-kata type firearms | 5 |
| Locally made gal-kata type firearms | 2 |
| T-56 rifle magazines | 4 |
| T-56 rounds | 95 |
| Live rounds, assorted calibres | 436 |
| Pairs of handcuffs | 2 |
| Heroin | 2 kg 5 g |
The ammunition totals 531 rounds.
The police photograph of the haul matches the inventory item for item: seven short-barrelled improvised weapons laid out in two groups, four curved rifle magazines, two long strands of linked rounds, several loose piles of mixed ammunition, two pairs of handcuffs and a sealed yellow parcel.
A five-gram arrest opened the case
The chain began on 12 September, when a resident of Kotikawatta was arrested with 5 grams and 600 milligrams of Ice — a quantity small enough to be an ordinary street-level detention.
Police obtained a seven-day detention order and questioned him. That produced information about an alleged supplier operating from Webada, Weliweriya, roughly 20 kilometres further out from Colombo.
Officers arrested that second suspect and recovered the weapons, ammunition and heroin. He was produced before the Aluthkade Magistrate’s Court, where police secured a further seven-day detention order.
The same unit, the third haul this month
This is at least the third firearms recovery attributed to the Western Province North Crimes Division reported in recent weeks. On Monday the same division arrested four people at two Kolonnawa locations with a 9mm pistol, seven T-56-type rifles and more than 600 rounds. In June it seized 19 revolvers at Dematagoda.
The recurring pattern in all three is not the drugs but the weapons cached alongside them — and in this case the calibres line up, unlike the Kolonnawa haul, where the ammunition recovered did not match the rifles.
The handcuffs are the detail worth noting. Restraints are not trafficking equipment; they appear in cases involving abduction or people posing as police.
Not reported
NewsFirst does not name either suspect, give their ages, or say whether the two are alleged to be part of a wider network. It does not say what a T-kata or gal-kata is worth, whether the weapons were test-fired or linked to any shooting, or what the heroin is valued at. It does not explain why handcuffs were in the cache. Nor does it say whether the 12 September arrest and this one are being treated as a single investigation before the court.
