{"id":325486,"date":"2025-12-03T18:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325486\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:34:29","slug":"former-nrl-star-faces-court-for-allegedly-stealing-140k-worth-of-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325486\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NRL star faces court for allegedly stealing $140k worth of crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NRL star Trent Merrin has faced court over allegations he stole $140,000 worth of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old former State of Origin and Australian Test lock appeared in Port Kembla Local Court on the NSW South Coast, but did not enter a plea.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyer Harry Lollback asked the court for a one-week adjournment as some of the facts of the case were still to be determined.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/298d3a01-0e20-46fb-9ffb-c37136292174.jpeg\"   alt=\"Trent Merrin\"\/>Trent Merrin has faced court over allegations he stole $140,000 worth of cryptocurrency. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Lollback is expected to enter a plea on behalf of Merrin at the next court date on December 10.<\/p>\n<p>Merrin was arrested in November 2025 following a year-long investigation by police.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception and was granted bail.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege Merrin accessed a 29-year-old man&#8217;s account, believed to be a friend, and transferred $140,000 worth of Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/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. \"\/>The former NRL star was arrested in November. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>During his rugby league career, Merrin played 13 games for NSW and was part of the state&#8217;s drought-breaking success in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He also played seven Tests for Australia and more than 150 games for the St George Illawarra Dragons, winning the 2010 NRL Grand Final with the club.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, he signed a five-year contract with the Penrith Panthers and then played one season in the English Super League team Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>Merrin retired from the sport in April 2021, aged 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL star Trent Merrin has faced court over allegations he stole $140,000 worth of cryptocurrency. The 36-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-325486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325486","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=325486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}