{"id":19306,"date":"2025-03-13T12:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=19306"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:51:50","slug":"australian-ex-cricketer-macgill-found-guilty-of-cocaine-supply-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/australian-ex-cricketer-macgill-found-guilty-of-cocaine-supply-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian ex-cricketer MacGill found guilty of cocaine supply charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill was Thursday found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the retired leg-spinner introduced his personal cocaine dealer to an associate in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The pair went on to organise a US$200,000 drug deal between themselves, police alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Although MacGill was not involved in the subsequent transaction, a jury found him guilty of knowingly taking part in the supply of a prohibited drug, national broadcaster ABC reported.<\/p>\n<p>The jury found the 54-year-old not guilty on a more serious charge of taking part in commercial-scale drug supply.<\/p>\n<p>MacGill played 44 Tests for Australia between 1998 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>His career coincided with that of Shane Warne, widely recognised as the best spin bowler of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill was Thursday found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine, local media reported. Police said the retired leg-spinner introduced his personal cocaine dealer to an associate in 2021. The pair went on to organise a US$200,000 drug deal between themselves, police alleged. Although MacGill was not involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19308,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions\/19308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}