Quarantine escapees arrested by Police

MIAMI - JULY 17: Josephine Martinez is handcuffed as she is taken into custody by Miami-Dade police Mortgage Fraud Task Force during an early morning raid July 17, 2008 in Miami, Florida. Martinez was arrested during Operation: "Life is Good", which included the arrest of 15 people suspected of being involved with mortgage fraud. The individuals were arrested for activity that included, but not limited to racketeering, conspiracy to racketeer, use of personal identification information, grand theft, and money laundering. Some statistics show that Florida ranks first in the nation for mortgage fraud and second in the number of foreclosures. The task force is comprise of various agencies including the Miami-Dade Police Department, Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office, Florida Attorney General's Office, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, State of Florida Department of Financial Services, FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office, Office of the Treasury and others. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

(UTV|COLOMBO) – Four youth who had evaded quarantine after returning from South Korea were arrested by Ratnapura Police while they were hiding in their houses yesterday.

They had evaded the healthcare officials stationed at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) who are conducting health checks on the passengers returning from other countries, especially three specific countries including South Korea and fled to their homes.

However, Officials of the airport had got wind of their escape after perusing the details of air passengers and names of those refereed to the quarantine centres. Upon being informed by the airport officials and under the instructions of the Ratnapura SP Senaka Weerasinghe a police team headed by HQI Rohan Olugala had found the youth from their homes.

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