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Ex-Arsenal player jailed for drug smuggling plot

Former Arsenal player Jay Emmanuel-Thomas.[Getty Images]

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 in September last year after officers seized roughly 60 kilograms of cannabis brought through London's Stansted Airport by two women he had recruited - his girlfriend and her friend - on a flight from the Thai capital Bangkok via Dubai.

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