{"id":229346,"date":"2025-10-21T06:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229346\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:55:10","slug":"western-bulldogs-coach-luke-beveridge-alleged-target-of-100k-extortion-plot-and-threats-who-is-the-accused-arrest-warrant-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229346\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge alleged target of $100k extortion plot and threats, who is the accused, arrest warrant, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Bulldogs senior coach Luke Beveridge has reportedly been the target of alleged threats and a $100,000 extortion plot. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/victoria\/luke-beveridge-alleged-target-of-threats-100-000-extortion-plot-20251021-p5n469.html?utm_source=x&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=the_age&amp;utm_content=feed&amp;utm_term=metros_social_eds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According to The Age<\/a>, Brendon Berry, 53, is accused of sending a letter to Beveridge demanding the money. <\/p>\n<p>Per the report, Berry failed to attend the Melbourne Magistrates\u2019 Court on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Watch live coverage of the 2025 Telstra AFL Draft on Kayo Sports 19-20 Nov | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/?pg=afl&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>While the contents of the letter have not been publicly revealed in court, The Age reports court documents state Berry is alleged to have demanded payment \u201cin a manner which a reasonable person would regard as menacing\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>A warrant was issued for Berry\u2019s arrest on Tuesday after he failed to appear for a scheduled hearing regarding the case. He had also failed to appear on October 3 and 14. <\/p>\n<p>Per the report, Berry is charged with making an unwarranted demand for money with menace and using a postal service in a manner that could be regarded as menacing. <\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Donna Bakos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/victoria\/luke-beveridge-alleged-target-of-threats-100-000-extortion-plot-20251021-p5n469.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t issue warrants ever lightly. We explore all possibilities as we should \u2026 and I think I\u2019ve exhausted all those possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AFL\u2019s Integrity Unit employed a security guard to accompany Beveridge during the Bulldogs\u2019 Round 17 game against North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium on July 3.<\/p>\n<p>In July of this year, a Collingwood member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/teams\/carlton-blues\/afl-news-2025-michael-voss-press-conference-video-after-receiving-vile-death-threat-carlton-blues-struggles\/news-story\/e951ec04b923070650f099df2e937f32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">received a five-year ban from AFL and AFLW matches for directing a threatening text message<\/a> at Carlton senior coach Michael Voss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Bulldogs senior coach Luke Beveridge has reportedly been the target of alleged threats and a $100,000 extortion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,138538,138537,120892,64,63,689,55,639,138536,138533,138534,138539,1127,2105,663,13126,647,3257,7198,677,138535,22401,85,660,698],"class_list":["post-229346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-alleged-target","tag-alleged-threats","tag-arrest-warrant","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-brendon-berry","tag-court-documents-state","tag-donna-bakos","tag-extortion-plot","tag-fox-footy","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-luke-beveridge","tag-mason-cox","tag-melbourne","tag-michael-voss","tag-michael-willson","tag-oceania","tag-reports-court-documents","tag-senior-coach","tag-sports","tag-victoria","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}