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A semi-professional footballer confessed to having bags of cannabis stuffed in his underwear after police pulled over the car in which he was travelling.

Devante Morton had been a passenger in a car which was stopped by police in Sherburn Road, Leeds, on March 15 this year.

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Leeds Crown Court heard nothing was found during a search of the vehicle but there were concerns that there had been sufficient time for the occupants to hide items after officers indicated for the car to pull over.

Devante Morton was a passenger in a car which was stopped by police in Sherburn Road, Leeds. Picture: Google

Prosecutor Benjamin Bell said that while being taken into custody, Morton confessed to having "some bud" in his pants.

Morton told the officer that he had been planning to smoke the cannabis and did not want to lose out on the money he had spent on it.

The court heard the 25-year-old was the subject of a suspended prison sentence at the time of his arrest.

He had been handed the two-year jail term, suspended for two years, for three drug offences after being found with ketamine, MDMA and cannabis.

Semi-professional Leeds footballer confessed to having cannabis stuffed in his pants after police searched car