Australian hockey Olympian released after arrest for suspected cocaine purchase in Paris
- Midfielder Tom Craig has ‘shown remorse’ and had already moved out of Olympic Village, Australia team say
French police arrested Australian Olympic field hockey player Tom Craig on suspicion of buying cocaine from a drug dealer in central Paris, police and prosecutors said Wednesday.
Midfielder Craig, 28, last played for Australia on Sunday in his team’s quarter-final defeat to the Netherlands at the Paris Olympics.
A police source said he was arrested Wednesday around 00.30am (6.30am Hong Kong time) after “a cocaine transaction” near a flat building.
He was in possession of around one gram of cocaine, the source, asking not to be named, said.
The seller, 17, who was carrying several types of drugs in addition to the cocaine, including 75 Ecstasy pills and synthetic drugs, was also arrested.
The Australian Olympic Committee said in a statement later on Wednesday that Craig had been released without charge but had been given a warning by a judge.