Video emerges of former Cronulla chairman's drug arrest
Vision has been released showing the moment former Cronulla Sharks chairman Damian Keogh was arrested for drug possession.
Keogh resigned from the Sharks in May after he was found with a small bag of cocaine at an inner Sydney venue.
Footage captured by the ABC’s Keeping Australia Safe documentary was aired on Tuesday night, showing an "anxious and upset" Keogh being arrested.
The documentary was following the NSW Police Detection Dog Unit, and captured Keogh "running into the bathroom" when he saw officers.
“There’s a male over there, who, as we walked in with the police dog, he’s made a run for the toilets,” police say in the video.
“So we’ve chased him in there and he’s found to have two bags of cocaine.”
At the time of his arrest and resignation, Keogh insisted he didn't have a drug problem, saying he stood down to distance his beloved NRL club from his own scandal.
“It’s obviously been a very distressing time personally and for the family; just been bunkering down and trying to register things,” Mr Keogh said.
“I’ve stood down as chairman of the Sharks to try and distance myself from that at this stage.
“The club’s in great shape and they’ll move forward, just see how things go.”
Keogh, a former Australian basketball star who made three Olympic Games teams, took over at the Sharks during the supplements scandal in 2013.
He took the reins in the aftermath of the controversy, which saw coach Shane Flanagan suspended for a season and 17 former and current players banned.
Keogh helped rebuild the struggling club from wooden spooners to premiership winners last season when they beat Melbourne 14-12 in the Grand Final.
Chief executive Lyall Gorman in May said the club could not have gone from wooden spooners in 2014 to premiers last year if there was discipline, alcohol, or drug issues in the club.
"If those things are endemic you just don't achieve what our club has achieved over the last two-and-a-half years on or off the field," he said.
with AAP