{"id":713185,"date":"2026-06-03T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713185\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:16:31","slug":"nrl-news-2026-newcastle-knights-player-jermaine-mcewen-charged-with-drink-driving-integrity-unit-court-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713185\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Newcastle Knights player Jermaine McEwen charged with drink driving, integrity unit, court date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knights<\/a> young gun Jermaine McEwen<\/a> will front court later this month after being charged by police over drink driving offences.<\/p>\n

According to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, the 21-year-old has been charged with low-range drink driving and driving with a suspended licence.<\/p>\n

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Jermaine McEwen in action.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Newcastle released a statement on Wednesday, revealing McEwen informed them of the incident at the time and it had been passed onto the NRL integrity unit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA thorough process continues to be undertaken by all parties required,\u201d the club said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil due process is completed, the Knights will not make any further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The back-rower has been a shining light for the Knights in his 28 first grade appearances and has emerged as a star of the future.<\/p>\n

He recently extended his contract with Newcastle until the end of 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cJermaine continues to exceed our expectations this year,\u201d head coach Justin Holbrook<\/a> said last month when his new contract was announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has only just turned 21. His improvement this season, and the way he has played has made him a very important part of our team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking forward to watching Jermaine\u2019s further improvement over the next couple of years and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

McEwen has been named to play for the Knights this weekend against the Storm and isn\u2019t due to face court until June 25. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knights young gun Jermaine McEwen will front court later this month after being charged by police over drink…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-713185","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\/713185","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=713185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}