Cocaine Scandal

[ivanhungryjak]

@jrojourno: Breaking: football star Karmichael Hunt has been charged with supplying cocaine after probe by Crime and Corruption Commission

Think we may have dodged a bullet here.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

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Karmichael Hunt, one Australia’s most successful sportsmen, has been charged with supplying cocaine as part of an investigation by Queensland’s crime and corruption commission.Hunt, 28, was arrested and charged with four counts of supply on Thursday evening, days after playing as five-eighth for the Queensland Reds rugby team.
Guardian Australia understands Hunt’s arrest is related to an earlier joint CCC and police probe that allegedly uncovered cocaine trafficking by another prominent footballer, onetime Queensland rugby league player Jason Smith.
Hunt was expected to appear in the Southport magistrates court on March 5.
He was charged along with two other men and a woman whom the CCC said in a statement had been “identified allegedly arranging the supply of cocaine during an ongoing drug trafficking investigation”.
“The CCC will allege that during an investigation focused on a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating in South East Queensland, these four individuals were identified contacting the syndicate and arranging for the supply of cocaine,” it said.
The CCC would further allege “the three men and one woman arranged for the supply of cocaine for personal use or to on-supply cocaine to friends and colleagues between June and December 2014”.
Hunt is the only Australian to have played at elite level across the three codes of rugby league, Australian rules football and rugby union.
The 28-year-old made his name as a star with the Brisbane Broncos and Queensland rugby league teams before switching to AFL with the Gold Coast Suns in 2009.
Hunt signed a contract with the Queensland Reds rugby union team in August 2014, being appointed the Reds’ vice captain in January.
Hunt’s co-accused, a Burleigh Waters man, 24, a Mermaid Waters man, 27, and a Mermaid Waters woman, 22, are also expected to appear in Southport magistrates court on 5 March.
The same month, Smith was charged with trafficking cocaine after a joint investigation by Queensland police and the CCC.
Smith and prominent Toowoomba restaurateur Jason Wood have been accused of trafficking 280g of cocaine between June and December last year.

Karmichael Hunt charged with supplying cocaine | Sport | The Guardian

 

[Bucking Beads]

Re: NRL Players in hot water

It is all over for Karmichael if this is found to be true. What an idiot.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Re: NRL Players in hot water

It is all over for Karmichael if this is found to be true. What an idiot.

Unbelievable. It's not as though he'd be short of a dollar.

 

[Rally Towel]

Re: NRL Players in hot water

It is all over for Karmichael if this is found to be true. What an idiot.

Don't know about all over. Allegedly for personal consumption or for friends and colleagues. As opposed to distribution in volume.

Put a line through his short term prospects though. Reds will be kicking themselves.

 

[Kimlo]

Re: NRL Players in hot water

What an absolute fuckstick. He's got more money than most people would ever dream to have and he does something as stupid as that.

Thank **** he never signed back on with us.

 

[Unbreakable]

Re: NRL Players in hot water

Guess we dodged a bullet lol

 

[talanoa]

former broncos start in hot water...

Karmichael Hunt has been charged with four counts of supplying cocaine by Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission.
The Queensland Reds star is due to appear in Southport Magistrate Court on March 5. The former Australian rugby league player was part of four people – three men and one woman – charged. It is alleged they arranged for cocaine for personal use or to be passed on to friends or colleagues between June and December 2014. Hunt was playing AFL for the Gold Coast Suns during that time.
"During an investigation focused on a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating in South East Queensland, these four individuals were identified contacting the syndicate and arranging for the supply of cocaine," Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission statement read.
Hunt's co-accused, a Burleigh Waters man, 24, a Mermaid Waters man, 27, and a Mermaid Waters woman, 22, will all appear in court on 5 March.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Re: NRL Players in hot water

Don't know about all over. Allegedly for personal consumption or for friends and colleagues. As opposed to distribution in volume.

Put a line through his short term prospects though. Reds will be kicking themselves.

That is true. Can't see how anyone will want him to play for them after this though.

 

[Cult]

Re: NRL Players in hot water

He probably should have stayed in AFL where they cover this sort of crap up.

 

[talanoa]

Re: Karmichael Hunt charged with supplying Cocaine

this goes deep, expect more announcements over the next 2 weeks.

 

[Fozz]

Re: Karmichael Hunt charged with supplying Cocaine

A sportsman using cocaine.

Well, I never! Doesn't he know it's only lawyers who use cocaine?

So basically he brought some drugs for personal use and passed it into friends. High crime indeed.

 

[Cult]

Re: Karmichael Hunt charged with supplying Cocaine

A sportsman using cocaine.

Well, I never! Doesn't he know it's only lawyers who use cocaine?

So basically he brought some drugs for personal use and passed it into friends. High crime indeed.

You know how there's always a bunch of stupid Paul Gallen fans who justify his actions despite it obviously not being ok? Yeah..

 

[broncos4life]

Re: Karmichael Hunt charged with supplying Cocaine

What a fucking idiot. While I don't think this is the crime of the century he is still a fucking idiot.

The Reds must be spewing

 

[Cult]

Re: Karmichael Hunt charged with supplying Cocaine

Is Israel Folau not Australian?

 

[Rally Towel]

Re: Karmichael Hunt charged with supplying Cocaine

That is true. Can't see how anyone will want him to play for them after this though.

It'll be some time and he'll need good PR, but if Wicks, Houston, and Packer (pending) can do it.

 

[Russell Coight]

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That is true. Can't see how anyone will want him to play for them after this though.

Dell returned to the NRL after his coke ban. obviously its different taking it to supplying it, but wouldn't shock me if it ended up being the same story for Hunt if he gets the boot.

 

[broncos4life]

Re: Karmichael Hunt charged with supplying Cocaine

Is Israel Folau not Australian?

He is, but there is nothing elite about what he did in AFL