Scandal Joel Smith (Melbourne): Cocaine trafficking accusation

[Chief]

Trafficking Accusation:

Scandal - Joel Smith (Melbourne): Cocaine trafficking accusation

Trafficking Accusation: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/joel-smith-melbourne-cocaine-trafficking-accusation.1373812/post-82421629 MFC and AFL Statements: Melbourne Football Club Media Statement – Joel Smith The Melbourne Football Club has been advised by the AFL that further...

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MFC and AFL Statements:

Melbourne Football Club Media Statement – Joel Smith

The Melbourne Football Club has been advised by the AFL that further Anti-Doping Rule Violations have been asserted against Joel Smith by Sport Integrity Australia.

The Melbourne Football Club is not authorised to make public comment while this is an ongoing matter that is being investigated by Sport Integrity Australia.

It should be noted since the article has been published on the Herald Sun website, Joel’s management has contacted the Club on his behalf to advise that the comments made by the source within the article are not reflective of Joel’s views and the source is not speaking on any authority from Joel.

Joel has made it very clear that he has no issues or concerns with anyone at the Melbourne Football Club.

As the Club has previously stated, we will wait for the investigation to be completed before we update our supporters further.

AFL STATEMENT – JOEL SMITH

The AFL confirms that further Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) have been asserted against Joel Smith of the Melbourne Football Club under the Australian Football Anti-Doping Code.

Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) has notified Smith that three ADRVs for “Trafficking or Attempted Trafficking” of Cocaine to third parties are asserted against him.

Under the Code, Trafficking in an anti-doping context is relevantly defined to be “Selling, giving, transporting, sending, delivering or distributing a Prohibited Substance, by an Athlete … to any third party [but] shall not include actions involving Prohibited Substances which are not prohibited in Out-of-Competition Testing unless the circumstances as a whole demonstrate such Prohibited Substances are not intended for genuine and legal therapeutic purposes or are intended to enhance sport performance” (Article 1 of the Code).

Further, SIA has notified Smith that an ADRV for Possession of a Prohibited Substance (Cocaine) on 9 September 2022 is asserted against him.

These ADRVs are in addition to that previously asserted against him (in connection with a sample provided by him after the match between Melbourne and Hawthorn on 20 August 2023 which tested positive to Cocaine and its metabolite, Benzoylecgonine).

Smith will continue to be provisionally suspended pending the finalisation of all of these matters, meaning he is not permitted to be part of Melbourne’s football program, including Melbourne’s pre-season training that is currently underway.

Under the Code, the new asserted ADRVs will be further investigated by SIA and these matters may ultimately be heard by an AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal in the coming months.

Due to the ongoing nature of the anti-doping process, the AFL and SIA are unable to make any further comment at this time.

 

[Slingshot Footy]

AFP would still need a warrant & grounds for a warrant. A show cause might be that grounds?

I bet a heap of Melbourne & AFL players are wiping their phones…

And an alarming rate of burner phones have just been purchased!

 

[Gavin Excell]

Hearing it was James Harmes and James Jordan in the text messages. Very relieved they are out of the club now.

Ah of course the blokes who left
Grundy as well?

 

[matty p]

Gary Pert is the common denominator here. I was actually hoping he would end up at Carlton, but even they aren't that stupid. Turns out, Melbourne are that stupid.

Or if you look back at the Bombers, Goodwin is the common denominator.

 

[FuManchu]

AFP would still need a warrant & grounds for a warrant. A show cause might be that grounds?

I bet a heap of Melbourne & AFL players are wiping their phones…

Wouldn’t matter much if they’ve responded back to him.

 

[tigersnag]

Who is leaking to Michael Warner?

The usual suspects that leak to all the media.

The difference is he doesn't stay quiet like the all other AFL gimp lap dogs in the media that fear for their careers or reputation.

INTEGRITY in the AFL media is more scarce than an Essendon finals win. Probably more so.

 

[LanceRomance]

Hearing it was James Harmes and James Jordan in the text messages. Very relieved they are out of the club now.

Nice one

 

[Gough]

Three grams of coke as a trafficable quantity is laughable.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Three grams of coke as a trafficable quantity is laughable.

That's just preloading

 

[Stottzy]

2021 Dees are the new 2006 Eagles. Unbelievable how this sh!t repeats itself.

 

[boncer34]

Or if you look back at the Bombers, Goodwin is the common denominator.

Need to visit the 97/98 flags now.

 

[Toump Ass]

Ah of course the blokes who left
Grundy as well?

Harmes and Jorden (and Grundy, now that you mention it) both chose clubs with well publicised "issues" around illegal narcotics.
Now for the record, I'm not saying this is a coincidence.

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

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With a maximum jail time of 15 years for trafficable quantities, would obviously depend highly on the amount total between 3g and 250g. A huge difference there but pretty much any amount ends the possibility of an AFL return if there was one.

Makes that story about the bikie parked outside a player's house a bit more intriguing .. a player who was reportedly on leave.

 

[Toump Ass]

I will say that sporting bodies having access to mobile phones of athletes seems a bit unnecessary.
No doubt many players would have an archive of nudes etc. sitting there, Mr. Peabody at SALADA doesn't need to see that stuff.

Mind you any drug trafficker that's not a complete moron would be using something like Wickr, surely.

 

[matty p]

Need to visit the 97/98 flags now.

I’m eternally thankful Goodwin wouldn’t have had the money back then to wreak havoc.

 

[hawkman]

I’m eternally thankful Goodwin wouldn’t have had the money back then to wreak havoc.

The better odds were on an Adelaide win

 

[Tandy]

Well texts confirming he was offering to sell coke to teammates... How many teammates did he offer it to? How many teammates have previously purchased from him?
Wouldn't be the first time, that would be done in person not over text. Drug culture all but confirmed.

 

[tigersnag]

Who would have thought that Gill's soft 3 strike drug policies would lead to something like this?

Shocked to be sitting on a polo horse here.

The carpets at AFL house must be bulging.

 

[yodellinhank]

Need to visit the 97/98 flags now.

Neil Craig becomes the new common denominator?

 

[BarryMorgan]

AFP would still need a warrant & grounds for a warrant. A show cause might be that grounds?

I bet a heap of Melbourne & AFL players are wiping their phones…

Giving it the full Talia brothers treatment.

 

[ThirtyFive]

Who would have thought that Gill's soft 3 strike drug policies would lead to something like this?

Shocked to be sitting on a polo horse here.

The carpets at AFL house must be bulging.

Is it Gill’s, though? AFLPA lobbied hard for it if I remember correctly……

 

[Zen242]

Surely a few mobiles should have gone into the Yarra

 

[Elixuh]

But Gary Pert said it's the best culture he's ever been involved in. Imagine what Collingwood must have been up to a few years ago

/s

In some ways, times were simpler under Neeld.

 

[Great8]

I’m eternally thankful Goodwin wouldn’t have had the money back then to wreak havoc.

lol, half your lads were on the nose beers then. There is a reason Johnson was shipped off to Richmond

 

[tigersnag]

Is it Gill’s, though? AFLPA lobbied hard for it if I remember correctly……

You might be right, but he as the (previous) AFL CEO he has ultimate control.

What I'm suggesting is that - while Cocaine is prevalent (and is) in Australian society amongst under 40's, the AFL took the stance that they'll look the other way, and accept it's use - even amongst the game's biggest names with 3 strikes.

What I'm suggesting is that a zero tolerance or at very best a 1 strike then you're out policy is the only sensible move. If you want to exceed that then go and get a job at bunnings. It's moronic policy at best. Complete incompetence really.

 

[Chief]

Who does this over text message anyway??