{"id":54785,"date":"2025-07-15T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=54785"},"modified":"2025-07-15T22:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:36:14","slug":"nrl-champion-sent-to-court-over-alleged-3am-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=54785","title":{"rendered":"NRL champion sent to court over alleged 3am incident&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d79db4796efc26332eabfc3f5dafbc76\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inarticle\">\r\n    <div class=\"hb-ad-inner\"> \r\n    <div class=\"hbagency_cls\"  id=\"hbagency_space_111930\"><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NRL champion sent to court over alleged 3am incident&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NRL champion in question is Josh Papalii, a veteran Canberra Raiders forward (and Pacific international). He was slated to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court over an alleged incident that occurred around 3:10\u202fam on September 16, 2024. According to police, staff at a licensed venue called officers after \u201cthree men \u2026 behaving aggressively \u2026 throwing glasses.\u201d Papalii allegedly verbally abused and threatened police when asked to leave and refused to leave the premises as directed. This prompted his court summons the following October.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-2025-07-15T233308.155-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-2025-07-15T233308.155-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-2025-07-15T233308.155.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who Josh Papalii (Canberra Raiders prop, NRL champion)<\/p>\n<p>When About 3:10\u202fam, September\u202f16,\u202f2024<\/p>\n<p>Where Licensed venue in Canberra, ACT<\/p>\n<p>Allegations Intimidating police; failing to quit licensed premises<\/p>\n<p>Legal action Required to attend ACT Magistrates Court in October\u202f2024<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The original report was published on October\u202f3,\u202f2024, by 7NEWS Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No further recent updates on the outcome of the case are available in the sources we reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It appears not to involve injury or physical assault, but rather intimidatory behaviour toward police when asked to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious about developments\u2014like follow-up court dates, a plea, charges dropped, or conviction status\u2014I can dig deeper for more recent updates. Let me know!<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRL champion sent to court over alleged 3am incident&#8230; &nbsp; The NRL champion in question is Josh Papalii, a veteran Canberra Raiders forward (and Pacific international). He was slated to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court over an alleged incident that occurred around 3:10\u202fam on September 16, 2024. According to police, staff at a licensed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":54786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[701],"class_list":["post-54785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canberra-raiders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NRL champion sent to court over alleged 3am incident...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NRL champion sent to court over alleged 3am incident...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=54785\" \/>\n<meta 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