{"id":330409,"date":"2025-12-05T23:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330409\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:53:04","slug":"former-nrl-star-wendell-sailor-arrested-after-obstructing-traffic-and-resisting-arrest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330409\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NRL star Wendell Sailor arrested after obstructing traffic and resisting arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NRL star Wendell Sailor has been arrested over an incident in which he obstructed traffic in Wollongong late on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Sailor, a dual international having represented Australia in rugby league and rugby union, is poised to appear in bail court on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Broncos star Wendell Sailor.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3a48cdcf5ae1edd2fdcd4b9b2f6108f3fc9383e8.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Broncos star Wendell Sailor.Credit: 2001<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 11pm on Friday 5 December 2025, police were called to Throsby Drive, Wollongong, following reports of a man obstructing traffic,\u201d NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers attached to Wollongong Police District attended and located a 51-year-old man on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChecks revealed the man was allegedly breaching bail conditions. He was arrested and taken to Wollongong Police Station where he was charged with breach of bail, obstructing traffic and resist arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was refused bail to appear before Bail Court 3 today, Saturday 6 December 2025. There were no reports of injuries to the man or officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL star Wendell Sailor has been arrested over an incident in which he obstructed traffic in Wollongong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330409","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=330409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}