Former Arsenal Player Jailed For £600k Drug Smuggling Plot
Former Arsenal player Jay Emmanuel-Thomas was jailed for four years on Thursday for his involvement in a £600,000 ($812,000) drug smuggling plot.
The 34-year-old was arrested last September after authorities seized about 60 kilograms of cannabis at London’s Stansted Airport nike ja 1 scratch.
The drugs had been brought in by two women he recruited—his girlfriend and her friend—on a flight from Bangkok via Dubai.
The women, who were acquitted, claimed they believed they were carrying gold.
Emmanuel-Thomas pleaded guilty to smuggling and was dismissed by Scottish Championship club Greenock Morton following his arrest.
His lawyer air jordan 4 mars blackmon 2024 admitted that financial difficulties led the father of two to make a “catastrophic error of judgment.”
A promising graduate of Arsenal’s academy, Emmanuel-Thomas played five matches for the club before leaving in 2011.
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Judge Alexander Mills told him, “It’s through your own actions that you will no longer be known as a professional footballer but as a criminal. A professional footballer who threw it all away.”
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