{"id":712349,"date":"2026-06-03T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712349\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:17:12","slug":"nrl-2026-knights-star-jermaine-mcewen-charged-for-drink-driving-referred-to-the-nrl-integrity-unit-rugby-league-news-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712349\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Knights star Jermaine McEwen charged for drink driving, referred to the NRL integrity unit, rugby league news, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knights have referred an incident to the NRL Integrity Unit after rising star Jermaine McEwen was reportedly charged by police with drink-driving. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/nrl-around-the-clubs-round-13-20260528-p601s2.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SMH <\/a>have reported that McEwen was charged for driving with a suspended licence and low-range drink-driving. <\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the NRL Premiership LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports |<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Knights released a statement on Wednesday afternoon which didn\u2019t specify what happened but that the \u201cclub is aware of an incident\u201d involving the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcEwen reported the incident to the club at the time of the incident occurred and the club reported the matter to the NRL Integrity Unit,\u201d the Knights\u2019 statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA thorough process continues to be undertaken by all parties required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil due process is completed, the Knights will not make any further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jermaine McEwen in action against the Bulldogs last season.Source: The Daily Telegraph<\/p>\n<p>McEwen is listed to face court on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>The young back rower recently signed an extension which ties him to the club until at least the end of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if McEwen will be withdrawn from this weekend\u2019s clash against the Storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knights have referred an incident to the NRL Integrity Unit after rising star Jermaine McEwen was reportedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-712349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712349","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=712349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}