NSW police enter Clayton Lewis’ apartment in May 2024.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ NSW Police Force<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The police are there to arrest the New Zealand footballer on a betting corruption charge, and serve him with a search and seizure notice for his electronic devices.<\/p>\n In the video footage of the May 2024 operation, circulated to media by the NSW Police, Lewis later emerges from behind the charcoal door, dwarfed by two plainclothes officers flanking him on either side.<\/p>\n He is wearing the off-duty uniform of any Gen Z’er: a hoodie, track pants and slippers. As he is marched out in uggs and cuffs through the lobby and into a waiting police wagon, he looks far from the hardened criminal the operation might have suggested.<\/p>\n While Lewis is being questioned at the Parramatta Police Station, nearby at the state headquarters on Charles St, senior law enforcement figures are staging a press conference to announce the arrest of three A-League players – the outcome of a months-long investigation by the organised crime squad.<\/p>\n The investigation, codenamed Strike Force Beaconview, has uncovered a spot-fixing scheme at Macarthur FC. Police allege the players were paid up to $10,000 to deliberately concede yellow cards in order to facilitate illegal gambling activity on their games.<\/p>\n “While $10,000 may seem a lot of money to a young sportsperson, we will advise that it is incredibly insignificant when you consider the damage … to the young person’s reputation, their livelihood and their future livelihood by being involved in these criminal acts,” assistant commissioner Michael Fitzgerald tells a packed media room.<\/p>\n