{"id":94327,"date":"2025-08-25T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94327\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:24:07","slug":"nrl-star-brandon-smith-charged-with-drug-supply-and-betting-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94327\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL star Brandon Smith charged with drug supply and betting offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NRL player Brandon Smith has been charged with drug supply and betting offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 29-year-old South Sydney Rabbitohs star was issued with a summons by Queensland Police on August 20 for allegedly supplying dangerous drugs and using or disclosing inside knowledge for betting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement, the South Sydney Rabbitohs said the club was aware of the allegations against Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The club has informed the NRL Integrity Unit about the allegations,&#8221; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;As this matter is part of a Queensland Police investigation, the Rabbitohs will be making no further comment at this stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Queensland police spokesperson said investigations by detectives into the allegations were continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Smith is due to face the Southport Magistrates Court on September 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRL player Brandon Smith has been charged with drug supply and betting offences. The 29-year-old South Sydney Rabbitohs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,615,69755,2025,1730,761,762,158,1158,10471,4439,85],"class_list":["post-94327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-betting","tag-brandon-smith","tag-charges","tag-drugs","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-police","tag-queensland-police-service","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94327","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=94327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}