English footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been charged in connection with an attempt to smuggle cannabis with an estimated value of 600,000 (R14 million) through a British airport, UK police said Thursday.
The 33-year-old forward, who plays for Scottish second-tier side Greenock Morton, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers in Gourock, near Glasgow, on Wednesday.
The much-travelled Emmanuel-Thomas, a former England youth international who has also played for Arsenal, Ipswich and Aberdeen, was remanded in custody ahead of an expected court appearance on Thursday.
The NCA, which investigates serious and organised crime, seized the drugs at Stansted Airport, in southeast England, earlier this month.
Border Force officers detected about 60 kilograms of the drug in two suitcases, which had arrived via a flight from Bangkok.
