Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to the publication, police officers inspected the vehicle, where Laurie was the passenger and allegedly found 0.37 grams of cocaine.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing representations made by the man\u2019s legal representative, a criminal infringement notice was issued and the charge withdrawn at Court,\u201d NSW Police told Foxsports.com.au in a statement.<\/p>\n
Despite the charges being dropped on November 10 and his matter being dismissed, News Corp reports that the NRL\u2019s Integrity Unit is looking into the issue.<\/p>\n
Laurie\u2019s solicitor Pat Duffy told the outlet new laws introduced by the NSW government meant Laurie could have been issued a $400 on-the-spot fine, which they then agreed to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was instructed immediately and raised with police that Mr Laurie should not have been charged,\u201d Duffy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice agreed to withdraw the charge. A Criminal Infringement Notice (CIN) was then issued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt (the charge) was withdrawn at the first instance, at the request of the police, and no adverse finding of wrongdoing was made against Mr Laurie by the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daine Laurie of the Raiders during the NRL pre-season match between Cronulla Sharks and Canberra Raiders at Polytec Stadium, on February 21, 2026, in Gosford, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
The alleged incident happened one day after the team he was contracted to at the time – Penrith Panthers – lost in the preliminary final to the Brisbane Broncos at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cPanthers has been in discussions over the past few days with the NRL,\u201d a spokesperson from Laurie\u2019s former club said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The Canberra Raiders have declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canberra Raiders recruit Daine Laurie is expected to be probed by the NRL over an incident on Mad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-513463","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\/513463","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=513463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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