Former AFL player agent Ricky Nixon has been charged over a series of allegedly threatening social media posts.
Police swooped on the 62-year-old outside his Port Melbourne home on Thursday afternoon, handcuffing him and driving away in a division van.
He was questioned and charged with intimidating a law enforcement officer, making a threat to kill and using a carriage service to menace.
Nixon has been bailed to face Melbourne Magistrates Court in early July.
Now-deleted posts from his public Facebook account, which AAP has seen screenshots of, allegedly named and threatened a serving police officer.
"I'm on a mission to bury these c***s big time, on my way to Box Hill," one post read.
Nixon, who played 63 AFL/VFL games before becoming a player agent to some of the league's biggest stars, is separately fighting allegations he sold fake premiership memorabilia.
He allegedly claimed the footballs were signed by Melbourne Football Club players after their 2021 AFL premiership win.
Nixon was originally due to face a two-day hearing in February but advised Melbourne Magistrates Court in January that he no longer had lawyers acting for him.
He is also serving a community corrections order after being found guilty in June 2024 of unlawful assault and discharging a missile.
Magistrate Vincenzo Caltabiano determined Nixon punched and kicked an Australia Post worker before throwing a package at him, at his home on March 10, 2022.
His other past controversies include having a relationship with a 17-year-old schoolgirl, pleading guilty to drink driving and violently clashing with a reporter on the street.
