The Western Bulldogs vice-captain Lachie Hunter will be charged with drink driving after he allegedly crashed into four parked cars in Melbourne's south.
Highway patrol officers were called to Wright Street in Middle Park at about 8:45pm on Thursday.
The driver of the Toyota SUV was not there but they found a wine bottle and a Western Bulldogs training bag with the number seven on it inside the car.
Hunter was later found at a property in South Yarra and was given a preliminary breath test with a reading of 0.123 — more than double the legal limit.
It's expected Hunter will be charged on summons with drink driving and other traffic matters.
Police suspended Hunter's licence for 12 months and he was also fined $1652 for a breach of the coronavirus directions issued by the Chief Health Officer.
Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon told the ABC he was concerned about the allegations and regarded them as very serious.
"This is, to say the very least, a regrettable incident and we need to get some answers," he said.
"We obviously don't want to encourage anyone to breach social distancing laws at a time when what we're doing as a community is so important and the need for people not to drink drive is something that everyone, certainly everyone connected to the AFL, has had reinforced to them on multiple occasions."
Later, in a statement, the club said it was continuing its investigation including the involvement of two other Bulldogs players, Bailey Smith and Billy Gowers.
The club discussed the issue at a board meeting today and said it was "taking the matter very seriously."
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan told 3AW the league's integrity unit was investigating the matter.
"There is always individual circumstances in mitigation but clearly drink driving is just clearly unacceptable under any circumstances and the rules around the quarantine in which all our community live, is very clear as well," he said.
