A former Richmond footballer is behind bars amid allegations he was concerned in a violent automotive chase in Melbourne on Christmas Eve.
Daniel Connors appeared in court docket on Friday on a string of offences, together with medicine and firearms prices, and the alleged theft of a motorcar police say was utilized in a violent crime the place pictures had been fired.
Connors, who performed for the Tigers between 2007 and 2012 earlier than being sacked for a well-documented sleeping capsule blunder after repeat behavioural warnings, didn’t apply for bail in court docket on Friday.
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He’ll seemingly now stay behind bars till his subsequent court docket look in March.
“The previous footy star was arrested in Geelong yesterday (Thursday) by members of the SOG (Particular Operations Group),” 7NEWS reporter Cassie Zervos revealed.
“Daniel Connors was considered one of three males wished over a violent automotive chase on Christmas Eve the place pictures had been fired from one automotive to a different.
“Police from the Echo taskforce and the VIPER taskforce swooped on different males, arresting a 24-year-old man from Deer Park.”
Connors’ arrest was a part of a gang crime squad probe the place raids had been carried out on addresses throughout the Melbourne metro space.
Police are alleging a stolen Toyota Rav4 was used to pursue a Volkswagen by means of plenty of Melbourne’s northern suburbs the place dashcam imaginative and prescient exhibits the automobile run a pink gentle and cross onto the improper facet of the street as a part of evasive measures.
“It seems an occupant of the Toyota fires a number of pictures within the route of the Volkswagen, which is later positioned on 31 December with a shattered rear windscreen which police consider is gunshot harm,” Victoria Police stated in a press release.
“These are uncommon incidents however any indiscriminate use of a firearm and harmful driving within the presence of harmless civilians going about their morning is regarding,” Detective Performing Inspector Ash Ryan, from the Echo Taskforce, added.
“We consider this was a focused assault, however the hazard it poses to the neighborhood is immense and we’re fortunate that different folks weren’t significantly injured.”
Police are nonetheless interesting for any potential witnesses to the automotive chase to return ahead.
Connors managed 29 video games for the Tigers in his six years on the membership.
His court docket look on Friday will not be his first brush with the regulation, after being convicted of a violent pub assault that left a person with a severed tendon in his hand in 2016.
Initially printed as Ex-Tiger Daniel Connors arrested, charged over violent automotive chase the place ‘pictures had been fired’
