{"id":262019,"date":"2025-11-04T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262019\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:21:18","slug":"former-nrl-star-charged-over-alleged-cryptocurrency-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262019\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NRL star charged over alleged cryptocurrency fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NRL star Trent Merrin has been charged after allegedly stealing more than $100,000 of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives arrived this morning at the Barrack Point home of the former Dragon as part of an investigation into an alleged fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Merrin is accused of accessing a crypto account of a 29-year-old man and transferring $140,000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/bf7c15b6-42f6-409b-9204-082d2e4677ca.jpeg\"   alt=\"Former Dragons player Trent Merrin was arrested at his home this morning. \"\/>Former NRL star Trent Merrin has been charged. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old was arrested and taken to Lake Illawarra Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>Following his retirement from rugby league in 2021, Merrin now \ufeffdescribes himself as a &#8220;dedicated entrepreneur and investor with a passion for crypto&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>9News understands that the investigation relates to Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Merrin has been charged and will face court next month. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL star Trent Merrin has been charged after allegedly stealing more than $100,000 of cryptocurrency. Detectives arrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-262019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}