Overview
- Police say officers were alerted shortly before midnight to a disturbance at the Stock Exchange Hotel on Charlotte Street.
- According to police, venue staff had evicted the 61-year-old after an alleged assault on an employee.
- Officers allege he pushed them when told he was under arrest for public nuisance and a struggle followed before he was detained and taken to the Brisbane City Watchhouse.
- He has been charged with one count each of public nuisance, assault and obstruct police, and the allegations have not been tested in court.
- Gillmeister is a former Queensland and Australia rugby league forward who now works as a Seven NRL analyst.