{"id":545767,"date":"2026-03-17T07:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/545767\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:57:24","slug":"video-shows-arrest-of-hawthorn-hawks-players-dylan-moore-connor-macdonald-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/545767\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows arrest of Hawthorn Hawks players Dylan Moore, Connor MacDonald in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly released body cam footage shows Hawks stars Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald being arrested in the US<\/a> as their Australian friends plead for leniency from arresting officers.<\/p>\n

The players were arrested for climbing on a cherry-picker last November on a a night out, during a team trip to Phoenix, Arizona in the USA.<\/p>\n

A police report stated Moore had a small bag containing a crystal substance and a rolled $100 bill in his possession at the time of the arrest.<\/p>\n

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He told officers it did not belong to him and was not charged over the substance.<\/p>\n

Both men pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing.<\/p>\n

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Arrest video Hawks players.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

In the vision, police on bicycles approach the players as they climb into the cage of a scissor lift in a car park.<\/p>\n

When Moore and Macdonald step down, they are handcuffed. As that happens, teammates plead for the officers to let the players off.<\/p>\n

“Officer, we’re from Australia we literally don’t know the rules around here,” one says.<\/p>\n

Another tells the officer: “I’ve got a family full of police officers.”<\/p>\n

A friend asks: “Is there any way we can just call it a night and all go home or what?”<\/p>\n

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Both players pleaded guilty to trespass.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

However, the officer was having none of it.<\/p>\n

“No, they are going to go to jail tonight.”<\/p>\n

News of the arrest remained secret for months before Moore came clean in an interview days before the club’s high stakes clash with Essendon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The court case will be heard later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly released body cam footage shows Hawks stars Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald being arrested in the US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-545767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545767","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=545767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}