Twenty-nine mobile phones were taken into custody yesterday from wards A, C, and D of the Boossa High-Security Prison, which houses some of the country’s most dangerous criminals.
The detection was made during a joint search operation carried out by the Prison Intelligence Unit and the STF.
Prison Media Spokesman Jagath Weerasinghe said the mobile phones had been found in wards where notorious and high-profile inmates were being held.
Mobile phones were found in the cells of Dematagoda Chaminda drug trafficker ‘Wele Suda’ and underworld figure ‘Midigama Ruwan’.
By Norman Palihawadane