Canberra Raiders veteran participant Josh Papalii will face the ACT Magistrates Court docket after allegedly threatening police and workers at a licensed venue in Gungahlin final month.
ACT Policing allege the star prop was amongst three males throwing glasses and behaving aggressively in the direction of workers on the Raiders Gungahlin Membership within the early hours of September 16.
They are saying officers have been referred to as to the membership about 3am after reviews concerning the males’s behaviour.
When officers arrived, they allege they have been instructed 32-year-old Papalii had additionally verbally abused a workers member when the group was requested to go away the venue.
The officers requested the boys to go away the premises and allege the Raiders participant was then verbally abusive and threatening in the direction of them.
“After negotiating with the group, the boys left the premises, nonetheless re-entered a short while later,” ACT Policing stated in a press release.
“Police as soon as once more directed that they go away, at which period the person allegedly tried to additional intimidate police, earlier than the group departed the world a short while later.”
Papalii was then named the Raiders Membership Individual of the 12 months at an awards occasion that Monday night time.
He is performed greater than 300 video games for the NRL membership and is about to return for his or her 2025 season.
Within the wake of the incident, the Raiders issued a press release that stated they have been conscious of the incident and had knowledgeable the NRL Integrity Unit.
Papalii is about to face the ACT Magistrates Court docket later this month after being issued two court docket attendance notices for intimidating police and failing to stop a licensed premises.
His 30-year-old brother, John, can be fined for refusing to go away the membership.
The third man is just not being investigated by ACT Policing.
The Raiders have been contacted on Thursday however declined to remark.
