Man behind Sunil Shantha's prison break arrested

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Police spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara noted that the Criminal Investigations Department arrested a man who impersonated a prison officer. The individual was arrested over the act of impersonating a prison officer to facilitate the prison escape of the drug peddler named "Sunil Shantha." The suspect was arrested from Lungamwehera. The police further confirmed that the suspect was an army officer who had been suspended from service. The notorious drug peddler named Sunil Shantha had escaped from prison on the 07th of November 2018 when he was being taken from the Kegalle prison to the Colombo remand prison.