{"id":82668,"date":"2016-08-06T09:34:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T09:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghan-canadian-soccer-player-faces-charges\/"},"modified":"2016-08-06T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T09:34:05","slug":"afghan-canadian-soccer-player-faces-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghan-canadian-soccer-player-faces-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan-Canadian soccer player faces charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/8 August\/6 Aug\/football.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO (SW): Afghan-Canadian soccer player Sadi Jalali and his brother, Saidkheyam Jalali have been charged with drug trafficking and firearms possession.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team arrested the brothers after an investigation that began in June. The investigation was prompted by a tip that the brothers were allegedly trafficking drugs and in possession of firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Sadi Jalali, 21, was arrested during a traffic stop near Ellerslie Road and 70th Street. Police say they found 16 bags of cocaine and $ 5,285 in cash inside his vehicle, and seized an Infiniti sedan. He has been charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"600\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/8 August\/6 Aug\/football 3.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jalali is a former player for the FC Edmonton soccer team, the coach Colin Miller said. He was released during this year&#39;s spring season for &quot;football reasons,&quot; he said. He was with the club for around three years and no longer has anything to do with FC Edmonton, the coach added.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Saidkheyam Jalali, 23, was also arrested during a traffic stop near 4th Avenue and 50th Street. Police say he was carrying a loaded Beretta 9-mm handgun with the serial number removed.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan-Canadian soccer player Sadi Jalali and his brother, Saidkheyam Jalali have been charged with drug trafficking and firearms possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}