Arrested in a Sydney nightclub ... ex-Eagle Chad Fletcher.
Former West Coast midfielder Chad Fletcher has been arrested in Sydney, after allegedly being caught with cocaine in the notorious Kings Cross nightspot.
New South Wales police confirmed in a statement that Fletcher has been summonsed to face a Sydney court next month on drugs charges.
"Police from Redfern Region Enforcement Squad and the Dog Unit conducted an operation targeting drug supply and possession in the Kings Cross area on Saturday night," police said.
"Just after 11.30pm, officers conducted a patrol of the toilets inside a nightclub on Bayswater Road, Potts Point, when they allegedly found a 30-year-old man in possession of a substance - believed to be cocaine.
"He was arrested by police and subsequently issued a notice to appear in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday, September 9, charged with possessing a prohibited drug."
Fletcher left the Eagles last year after a stellar career as part of the AFL's most feared midfield alongside Ben Cousins, Daniel Kerr and Chris Judd.
The former mid-fielder and All-Australian came close to death while on a players' trip celebrating the club's premiership in Las Vegas in 2006. Speculation was rife his collapse and emergency dash to hospital was the result of drug use.
Fletcher never revealed his medical reports, and would not comment on the ordeal.
At the time, West Coast match committee chairman Tim Gepp commented on the emergency.
"There was no cover-up; from my perspective, I told everybody exactly what I did," Gepp said.
"I was asleep in bed, I got calls from a number of people to say one of our players was crook. I realised pretty quickly Chad was crook and not knowing how he was crook, I made sure we got him as quickly as we could to a hospital."
