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Love Island star, 29, arrested for smuggling cocaine on flight from Dubai as part of £53m drugs ring

Love Island star, 29, arrested for smuggling cocaine on flight from Dubai as part of £53m drugs ring

A LOVE Island star has been arrested smuggling cocaine on a flight from Dubai as part of a £53million drugs ring.

Magdalena Sadlo, 29, faces jail after being arrested at Heathrow in one of the UK’s biggest ever drugs operations.

Love Island star Magdalena Sadlo faces jail for cocaine traffickingCredits: Polsat / Love Island
The blonde was arrested at Heathrow in one of the UK’s biggest ever drugs bustsCredits: Linkedin
Magdalena (far left) described herself as a boyfriend stealer on the showCredits: Polsat / Love Island

The blonde starred on the Polish version of Love Island in 2021, bragging about “stealing” another woman’s boyfriend.

In the show, Magdalena describes herself as a “spontaneous and confident blonde you can count on.”

Her mission was to keep male contestants away from their partners on the show Casa Amor.

But Magdalena was voted out after Polish trolls criticised her “creepy lips” – saying she looked like she had “fallen into a beehive”.

After appearing on the show, Magdalena worked as a saleswoman at Ascot before launching a yacht charter company in Dubai.

Madgalena has now admitted conspiring to supply a class A drug between March 2022 and May last year.

She was arrested by Operation Matrix police after landing at Heathrow from Dubai.

The 29-year-old, from Bracknell in Berkshire, was remanded in custody pending sentencing later this year.

Carlisle Crown Court has heard how a £53million county lines network was dismantled after a drugs bust in the Lake District.

Earlier this year, nine men were sentenced to prison terms totaling more than 106 years for their participation in the massive network.

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The gang smuggled huge quantities of cocaine into the UK before distributing it across the country via ‘Amazon’-style deliveries.

But the operation failed after police seized 1kg of cocaine from a detention centre in Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, last year.

Officers combed through WhatsApp messages on the seized phones to identify key players in the gang, including messenger Magdalena.

Prosecutor Tim Evans described the bust as one of the largest ever made in the UK.

He said: “This is an Amazon-style drug trafficking operation, with such a level of organisation and commercialism.”

The news comes after The Sun revealed how gangsters are using lottery tickets to flood a British town with crack cocaine and heroin.