Jason Smith charged cocaine trafficking

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when i was watching news earlier the footage they used of him was all when he was playing for the Broncos

can't remember which channel

but apparently rugby league has a persecution complex! Can't speculate on the AFL...

 

[Spot On]

I seriously doubt any club would know this shit was happening under their nose.

I'll pay that as I think it was intended as a joke????

If not, I have to totally disagree. While not knowing everything players may be doing, those at the club would have to be blind and deaf not to know what is going on with their players. Many that use this site would be very aware of certain clubs and players that party and what they are using to party with. Some would have seen them first hand.

 

[Perth Red]

Tbf nobody has seen him for years after he chose obscurity in other codes. No surprise people still remember him as a star RL player.

 

[El Diablo]

they always referred to him as an AFL star before this

suddenly he's back to being an NRL star

 

[Mr Spock!]

Rumours floating around that there are more names to come

5 more Titans players according to 7.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Up to seven Titans could face drug charges as investigation into cocaine supply continues

http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au...supply-continues/story-fnj9yd9w-1227233169617

The scandal has left the club homeless and searching for a training paddock just 14 days from the start of the NRL season after they decided to leave elite college The Southport School after news of the charges broke.

The Bulletin understands TSS was under immense pressure from irate parents and stakeholders to cut ties with the Titans in wake of the scandal.

UP to seven Gold Coast Titans players are understood to be embroiled in a cocaine supply scandal which has rocked the club.

Up to five other players are understood to be under investigation.

The charges follow a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation into a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating in southeast Queensland.

The league stars were allegedly busted by the CCC contacting the syndicate to arrange for the supply of cocaine.

The CCC will allege the players were supplying cocaine for personal use or to on-supply cocaine to friends and colleagues between June and December last year.

Titans CEO Graham Annesley, who wasn’t aware of the charges until media reports yesterday, said it was a “black day” in the history of the club.

He said it was disappointing it took so long for the matters to be raised with the club.

“It is a bit like banging your head against a brick wall at times and it’s very difficult to keep fronting up and talking about these sorts of matters,” he said.

Mr Annesley said he didn’t know whether other players were involved in the scandal.

Falloon, Hunt and Dowling have been served notices to appear and the matter will first be mentioned in the Southport Magistrates Court on March 5.

http://forums.leagueunlimited.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=10705680

 

[El Diablo]

after news of the charges broke.

no one has been charged

most media have nfi

 

[Mr Spock!]

no one has been charged

most media have nfi

Falloon, of Mermaid Waters, has been charged with four counts of supplying cocaine while a 22-year-old woman from the same suburb has been charged with two counts of supply.

Dowling, who lives at Burleigh Waters, has been charged with seven counts of possession and two counts of supply.

Former Gold Coast Suns turned Queensland Reds player Hunt, 28, has been charged with four counts of supply.

Dowling?s solicitor Campbell MacCallum said he?d spoken at length to his client who was ?obviously distressed at the allegations?.

?He is distressed about the club?s decision to stand him down but he certainly understands from the club?s point of view,? Mr MacCallum said.

?They need to be seen taking action when such criminal charges are being alleged against one of their players.?

Mr MacCallum said Dowling intended to defend the charges in court.

Criminal lawyer Chris Nyst confirmed he would be representing Titans forward Beau Falloon who was yesterday served with a notice to *appear.

?As yet police have not been able to provide us with particulars of what?s been alleged,? Mr Nyst said.

?We?re given to understand it relates to alleged *relatively minor drug use unrelated to Mr Falloon?s football activities.?

 

[Mr Spock!]

MORE than 10 footballers are embroiled in the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission probe that on Friday netted Reds star Karmichael Hunt and Titans duo Beau Falloon and Jamie Dowling.

In Queensland sport’s darkest day, the CCC yesterday dropped a bombshell, levelling charges against tri-code athlete Hunt, Falloon and Dowling for allegedly supplying cocaine.

The series of busts are part of a sweeping, six-month police sting that saw former Origin league stars Jason Smith and Matt Seers charged last month for cocaine trafficking.

Hunt, Falloon and Dowling were immediately stood down by their clubs. And well-placed sources told The Courier-Mail on Friday night more big names are under surveillance at three leading Queensland teams – NRL’s Titans, rugby’s Reds and AFL’s Suns.

It can be revealed drug investigators have personally contacted a fourth Queensland sporting star, while as many as seven Titans players are in the crosshairs of the probe.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...sland-drug-probe/story-fniabrr8-1227232342706

 

[Cletus]

I really hope there is something more to this than players ringing up a drug dealer and asking to buy drugs, which they've then shared with their team mates. It would be pretty f**ked up if they are all being charged with supply for sharing drugs with each other. Fair enough if they are actually making money out of it but if you've got say 7 players who are taking turns buying drugs then to call them all dealers and then charge them all with supply is pretty f**ked up.

 

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QCCC investigations operate differently to police and being ordered to appear is technically different to a charge.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...-suns-last-year/story-e6frg7v6-1227233149403?

It would have been simpler to have said that he had been “charged with four counts etc” but in fact that hasn’t happened. The Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission is not the Queensland Police Service and it does things differently. So Hunt and the three other people — two of them reportedly Gold Coast *Titans NRL players — who will face related charges in the Southport Magistrates Court on March 5 were not arrested, handcuffed and taken down to the local police station to be charged late on Thursday.

They were instead served with a Notice to Appear in Court. In terms of the general effect, that’s the same as being charged except that, technically, it’s different. At some point Hunt and the others will have to present themselves at the local police station at which point their details will formally be entered into the justice system but until that happens then it cannot be said they have been charged.

 

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I really hope there is something more to this than players ringing up a drug dealer and asking to buy drugs, which they've then shared with their team mates. It would be pretty f**ked up if they are all being charged with supply for sharing drugs with each other. Fair enough if they are actually making money out of it but if you've got say 7 players who are taking turns buying drugs then to call them all dealers and then charge them all with supply is pretty f**ked up.

During a sting on suppliers players were caught buying for a bucks party and mad Monday, I would have thought the CCC would have better things to do than spy on footy players but they are an easy high profile mark for someone to hang their hat on.

 

[Mr Spock!]

SO they're going to court because......

 

[Cletus]

During a sting on suppliers players were caught buying for a bucks party and mad Monday, I would have thought the CCC would have better things to do than spy on footy players but they are an easy high profile mark for someone to hang their hat on.

You'd think they would but it is Queensland. The question I have to ask is are the football players the only people who bought drugs from the syndicate and why aren't all the presumably 100s of other buyers being charged? If all the players are doing is buying then that is pretty vindictive.

 

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You'd think they would but it is Queensland. The question I have to ask is are the football players the only people who bought drugs from the syndicate and why aren't all the presumably 100s of other buyers being charged? If all the players are doing is buying then that is pretty vindictive.

Apparently 100 people have been implicated, we just only hear about the public figures.

 

[typicalfan]

Who'd be a CEO of a club or an administrator for the game.

 

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NRL CEO Dave Smith statement

NRL.com
11:00pm Sat 21st February, 2015


NRL CEO Dave Smith said today he was angry and fed up with the minority of players who brought the game into disrepute.

He said the ARL Commission expected a tough stance to be taken against players who brought the game into disrepute – and that would happen.

Mr Smith stressed that the players served with notices to appear in court as part of the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission investigation into drug supply were entitled to the presumption of innocence in relation to any criminal charges.

But he said players were on notice that anyone engaging in criminal conduct could expect harsh punishment.

"The overwhelming majority of players do the right thing… youngsters look up to them and they do so much good work in the community," Mr Smith said.

"But we continue to have a small group of irresponsible players who engage in conduct which brings down our game.

"The message to those players is clear… if you bring the game into disrepute there will be consequences.

"We are not going to let a few players wreck our image and brand."

Mr Smith said there was no place for illicit and illegal drugs in the NRL.

"We know that Rugby League is a reflection of the rest of society so there will be people who stray from time to time but we will not tolerate serious misconduct which damages the game."

Mr Smith said the NRL remained committed to Rugby League on the Gold Coast.

"This is a key area for our game and we are determined to ensure our fans continue to have their own team on the Gold Coast," he said.

http://www.nrl.com/nrl-ceo-dave-smith-statement/tabid/10874/newsid/83960/default.aspx

11PM Saturday night, what bizarre timing to release a press statement, unless it is in tomorrow's paper or they are trying to preempt something bad due tomorrow.

 

[Diesel]

That's part of the reason it's being released now, the other being a wait til after the NQ V GC trail match. Slothfield & co will still bitch about them not coming out earlier and making a statement but at this stage the statement backs up what we all want, zero tolerance against dickheads

 

[Cletus]

Apparently 100 people have been implicated, we just only hear about the public figures.

You'd hope so but even still that just means they're ruining 100 peoples lives.