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Professional footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been charged in a sensational attempt to smuggle £600,000 worth of cannabis through Stansted Airport.
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Professional footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been charged in a sensational attempt to smuggle £600,000 worth of cannabis through Stansted Airport. The 33 year old striker, currently playing for Scottish Championship side Greenock Morton, was nabbed by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers at dawn yesterday, September 18, in Gourock, Inverclyde.
The ex-Livingston, Aberdeen, and Arsenal academy star, who resides on Cardwell Road in Gourock, was taken into custody and grilled by officers before being remanded, pending a court date on Thursday. Emmanuel-Thomas, whose career has seen him don the kits of Ipswich Town, Bristol City, Queens Park Rangers, and Thai side PTT Rayong, now finds himself facing serious legal woes.
The dramatic arrest followed a major bust on September 2, when NCA officers intercepted nearly 60 kilogrammes of cannabis, valued at…