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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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