{"id":56630,"date":"2025-08-10T01:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56630\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:34:11","slug":"brandon-smith-questioned-by-police-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56630\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Smith questioned by police at airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NRL Integrity Unit has requested an explanation from South Sydney<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5mcus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> after star recruit Brandon Smith<\/a> was stopped and spoken to by Queensland police when he arrived at Coolangatta airport ahead of Sunday\u2019s clash against the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Smith flew to the Gold Coast with the Rabbitohs squad on Saturday afternoon and upon arrival, was met by officers at the airport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brandon Smith.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b64cac8e9667748e76c06ec386d3c117c79bbc9b.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Smith.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Queensland Police confirmed the interaction, saying in a media statement issued on Sunday that: \u201cQueensland Police had cause to speak to a 29-year-old male at Coolangatta Airport. The male was later released without charge. Police have no further information to provide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbitohs CEO Blake Solly declined to comment on the matter. The NRL Integrity Unit has been alerted to the situation and has requested more information from South Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s New Zealand-based agent Stan Martin could not be immediately reached for comment. The 29-year-old is expected to turn out against the Titans as named on Sunday in his 150th NRL game.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Former Rabbitohs and New Zealand hooker Issac Luke presented Smith with his jersey in the lead-up to the clash, which holds significant wooden spoon implications for both South Sydney and the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is returning from a knee injury suffered in his first game for the club after his mid-season move from the Roosters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL Integrity Unit has requested an explanation from South Sydney after star recruit Brandon Smith was stopped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-56630","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\/56630","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=56630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}