Former Arsenal star Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been arrested and indictd in joinion with the taking of around £600,000 worth of cannabis at Stansted Airport.
The 33-year-ageder is set to ecombine before Carlisle Magistrates on Thursday after allegedly transport ining class B medications.
Around 60 kilos of cannabis was establish in two suitcases that reachd from Bangkok last month.
Two women, aged 28 and 32, were also indictd before being bailed.
PTT Rayong, Livingston, Aberdeen, Jamshedpur, Kidderminster Harriers and Greenock Morton are among the other clubs he’s turned out for thrawout his nurtureer.
National Crime Agency ageder spendigating officer David Phillips shelp: “The NCA persists to toil with partners enjoy Border Force to center those retaind in drug trafficking – that retains both the couriers and the organisers.
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Jay Emmanuel-Thomas commenceed his nurtureer at Arsenal
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“We would pdirect to anyone who is approached to retain in any charitable of trafficking to skinnyk very nurturefilledy about the probable consequences of their actions, and the potentiassociate life-changing dangers they will be taking.”
The NCA shelp in August that travellers arriving into the UK from Thailand, Canada and US could face jail sentences of up to 14 years if caught endeavoring to transport cannabis into the country.
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas pictured during his time at Aberdeen
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All three countries have decriminalised the drug.
The NCA have shelp that the amount of cannabis seized so far in 2024 is already three times more than the whole of 2023.
