Police body camera footage has emerged of the moment Hawthorn duo Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald were arrested in the US in the off-season.
The Hawks were were arrested and placed in jail after they were found trespassing, climbing a cherry picker, as footage revealed. According to the police officer with the bodycam video, a security guard had told Moore and Macdonald to get off the lift that was more than two metres in the air.
Video provided by Scottsdale Police Department to the Herald Sun has provided detailed insight into the evening.
"You're under arrest for trespassing because it's not your property," one police officer said.
"We didn't know that," a voice from the lift says.
"You didn't know this was yours?" the officer questions.
"We didn't know that.... we saw a random thing," one of the footballers said.
The footage has both Moore and Macdonald jumping down from the cherry picker, with police waiting to arrest them, placing them in handcuffs immediately.
The Hawks pair didn't resist arrest.
One police officer pulled out Macdonald's wallet when looking for identification.
A police officer also held a plastic bag, placing Moore's belongings in there, as well as a smaller plastic bag and a rolled up note, which police officers can be heard saying "it fell out of your pocket".
Moore had an initial drug paraphernalia charge, but has since been dropped.
Coach Sam Mitchell said on Channel 7 show, the Agenda Setters, that he was not surprised by the vision, expressing that the players were upfront from the start.
"None of it is a surprise, because they were really up front right from the start," Mitchell said.
"I hadn't seen the vision until today either and when I watched it there was nothing that surprised me in it."
"There's no surprises in the vision. I hadn't seen the vision until today either and when I watched it there was nothing that surprised me in it."
🗣️ Sam Mitchell on Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald's US arrest pic.twitter.com/z5vw5N2KZr
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Mitchell was also confident that the Hawks do not have a drug problem.
The duo was fined by the club, and will undergo alcohol counselling and complete community service. Moore was also stripped of his vice-captaincy.
Both have court dates later in the year. Moore has a sentencing hearing on July 13. Macdonald will learn his fate on August 4.
Full video here.
