{"id":513538,"date":"2026-03-02T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513538\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:53:09","slug":"raiders-recruit-at-centre-of-nrl-drugs-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513538\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders recruit at centre of NRL drugs investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penrith are working with the NRL amid reports they did not notify the integrity unit about an alleged Mad Monday drug scandal involving Daine Laurie.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie, who has since joined Canberra, had reportedly been due to face Penrith Local Court after police allegedly caught him with an illicit substance the morning after the Panthers&#8217; preliminary final loss to Brisbane last September.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nrl\/story\/_\/id\/48074638\/nrl-las-vegas-opener-reveals-early-premiership-identities\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1621773_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police withdrew the charges prior to his court date, which had been set for November 10.<\/p>\n<p>But the NRL is investigating whether it should have been notified by Penrith at the time.<\/p>\n<p>A Panthers representative confirmed to AAP the club had been working with the league on the matter in the lead-up to Friday&#8217;s round-one clash with reigning premiers Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie played 27 games in two stints for Penrith, as well as 49 for Wests Tigers between 2021 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The utility joined the Raiders this season as cover for young halves Ethan Sanders and Ethan Strange, and can also slot in at fullback pending injuries to Kaeo Weekes.<\/p>\n<p>He is unlikely to start in their opening clash with Manly, though could be selected on Ricky Stuart&#8217;s bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penrith are working with the NRL amid reports they did not notify the integrity unit about an alleged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-513538","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\/513538","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=513538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}