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Ex-soccer ref gets prison in NYC heroin case

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Updated Sep 23, 2011 12:34 PM ET
     
 

NEW YORK (AP)

The referee involved in Italy's contentious elimination from the 2002 World Cup has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison in his New York drug-smuggling case.

Byron Moreno was sentenced Friday in Brooklyn. He was arrested last year at Kennedy Airport after arriving on a commercial flight from his native Ecuador. Authorities say they discovered bags of heroin attached to his body during a routine search.

He pleaded guilty in January.

Moreno became a hated figure in Italy due to several decisions in the second-round loss to South Korea at the 2002 World Cup.

 
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