Brazilian footballer arrested with 793kg of marijuana gets 9 years in jail

Previous Borussia Mönchengladbach protector Marcelo Pletsch has been sentenced by a Brazilian court to nine years and two months in jail for the illicit transportation of a monstrous measure of cannabis. 

Pletsch was captured in November 2015 on charges of medication trafficking after a truck having a place with him was found to contain 793kg of maryjane at a checkpoint in Toledo in the condition of Parana. 

The deal and transport of pot conveys a far heftier criminal punishment in Brazil than a charge of ownership or development of the medication. 

A conviction for the illicit transportation of maryjane can prompt to a five to 15-year jail sentence and is considered medication trafficking if did in huge amounts. 

Pletsch, who was in the driver's seat of the vehicle at the season of the capture, will serve his sentence in the Brazilian city of Cascavel, Parana. 

The Brazilian played 142 recreations for Mönchengladbach from 1999 to 2005 preceding moving to spend a season at Kaiserslautern in Germany. 

Subsequent to forgetting Germany he played the rest of his profession in Greece, Cyprus, Serbia lastly Cascavel before resigning to the place where he grew up Toledo in 2011 to direct a pig cultivate.