{"id":93957,"date":"2025-08-25T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93957\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:44:08","slug":"south-sydney-rabbitohs-nrl-star-brandon-smith-charged-over-alleged-drug-supply-betting-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93957\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL star Brandon Smith charged over alleged drug supply, betting crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRL player Brandon Smith has been charged by Queensland Police with using or disclosing \u201cinside knowledge\u201d for illegal betting.<\/p>\n<p>The South Sydney Rabbitohs star and New Zealand international was also hit with drug supply charges on August 20, last week.<\/p>\n<p>Taskforce Maxima \u2013 which is responsible for busting serious organised criminal gang activity in Queensland \u2013 is investigating both allegations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brandon Smith in action against the Gold Coast earlier this month, having been questioned by police on arrival at Coolangatta Airport.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756100648_596_0bc83fd3f8d1be1c765495928a42db5b4b209045.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Smith in action against the Gold Coast earlier this month, having been questioned by police on arrival at Coolangatta Airport.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly questioned by police ahead of a game on the Gold Coast earlier this month, but released without charge.<\/p>\n<p>The NRL Integrity Unit has been made aware of the allegations and is liaising with Queensland Police and South Sydney on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is due to face Southport Magistrates Court on September 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 29-year-old man has been issued with a summons \u2026 for supplying dangerous drugs and using or disclosing inside knowledge for betting,\u201d a police spokesman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Smith spent much of his youth in North Queensland. He has never played for an NRL team from the state.<\/p>\n<p>He won a premiership with Melbourne Storm in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRL player Brandon Smith has been charged by Queensland Police with using or disclosing \u201cinside knowledge\u201d for illegal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-93957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93957","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=93957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}