LNP – Police arrested Army Suranga with a firearm in Mulleriyawa

The two underworld gangsters Buddhika Prasad alias ‘Army Suranga’ and Chamara Chaturanga, were arrested last night in Walpola in the Mulleriyawa police area, the police said.

A firearm made in a foreign country was also seized from the possession of the suspects.

Army Suranga was a member of the underworld gang and was previously arrested for many crime-related incidents. He has been arrested with a firearm at the Perapeliagoda Crime Division.

In the year 2020, the Mirihana Crime Division arrested Ami Suranga for using a fake police ID card.

He was a suspect in an of a shooting incident at the Umagaliya Stadium in Wellampitiya in 2014 where former President Maithripala Sirisena was present.

Mulleriyawa police are conducting investigations.