{"id":791120,"date":"2026-07-10T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791120\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:00:14","slug":"dylan-moore-afl-star-learns-fate-over-arizona-cherry-picker-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791120\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Moore: AFL star learns fate over Arizona cherry picker stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charges<\/a> against Hawthorn star Dylan Moore have been dropped after a night out during an off-season trip to the US<\/a> landed him and a teammate in an Arizona Jail.<\/p>\n

Moore and AFL teammate Connor MacDonald were arrested by Scottsdale police for trespassing after climbing a cherry picker suspended 2.5 metres in the air during a night out on an off-season trip on November 8.<\/p>\n

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Moore atop a boom lift in Scottsdale, Arizona.\u00a0Scottsdale Police Department<\/p>\n

The pair were both charged with third-degree criminal trespass for their antics.<\/p>\n

Moore was also arrested for possessing drug paraphernalia after he was searched and a plastic bag with a crystalline substance was found, but that charge was previously dropped.<\/p>\n

On Thursday the 26-year-old\u2019s case was officially dismissed.<\/p>\n

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Dylan Moore (left) and Connor Macdonald of the Hawks celebrate a goal.\u00a0AFL Photos<\/p>\n

Moore was required to pay a $300 diversion fee, complete an alcohol screening and take 16 hours of alcohol education.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah it\u2019s been a tough week but I can\u2019t wait to get back out on the G (MCG) in front of a big crowd and put on a show,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA tough week but that\u2019s all I can add, sorry mate.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacDonald\u2019s sentencing is set for next month.<\/p>\n

The AFL and the Hawthorn Football Club have indicated they won\u2019t be further sanctioning the pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges against Hawthorn star Dylan Moore have been dropped after a night out during an off-season trip to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-791120","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\/791120","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=791120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}